Girangaon (literally "mill village") was a name of an area now part of central Mumbai, India, which at one time had almost 130 textile mills, with the...
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carbohydrate-rich snack catered to the cotton mill workers of what was then known as Girangaon. This potato dumpling (batata vada) placed inside a pav was quick to make...
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Maharashtra an Indian state. It was once part of the neighbourhood called Girangaon, Mumbai's mill district that is now undergoing gentrification due to the...
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leased to the newly founded Haffkine Institute. It was a district in Girangaon, which was the focus of the Great Bombay textile strike of 1982. It was...
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Islands of Bombay Elephanta Caves Banganga Tank Old Bombay Worli Fort Girangaon Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti Tanks Growth of Mumbai 1992–93 riots 1993...
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Wadkar was born in Kolhapur in a middle-class family that soon moved to Girangaon. His father Ishwar Wadkar worked in cloth mills and his mother cooked...
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Council. Vinod Tawde was born on 20 July 1963 in a Maratha family in the Girangaon area of Bombay (present-day Mumbai). Vinod Tawde is a Higher Secondary...
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Islands of Bombay Elephanta Caves Banganga Tank Old Bombay Worli Fort Girangaon Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti Tanks Growth of Mumbai 1992–93 riots 1993...
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Islands of Bombay Elephanta Caves Banganga Tank Old Bombay Worli Fort Girangaon Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti Tanks Growth of Mumbai 1992–93 riots 1993...
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culture spawned by rapid industrialisation, specially in the mills of Girangaon. In 2010, Shanbag opened the play S*x M*rality & Cens*rship. The play...
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year Dutta Samant led the textile strike, over 240,000 people worked in Girangaon. In late 1981, Dutta Samant was chosen by a large group of Bombay mill...
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part of the wider redevlopment and modernization of Mumbai. The mills of Girangaon were once integral to Mumbai's economy, particularly during the British...
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Hundred Voices: The Millworkers of Girangaon, Neera Adarkar and Meena Menon’s wonderful oral history of the Girangaon neighbourhood in Mumbai. This long...
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Performance of a Hindi play, Cotton 56, Polyester 84 by Sunil Shanbag about life in Girangaon, Mumbai, 2006....
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Islands of Bombay Elephanta Caves Banganga Tank Old Bombay Worli Fort Girangaon Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti Tanks Growth of Mumbai 1992–93 riots 1993...
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