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    had a range of flags for different purposes. The Princely states had their own flags which were to be flown alongside the British flag as a symbol of...
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    The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of India, with its capital...
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    Mumbai (redirect from Mumbai (Bombay))
    (/mʊmˈbaɪ/ muum-BY; ISO: Muṁbaī, Marathi: [ˈmumbəi] ), formerly known as Bombay (/bɒmˈbeɪ/ bom-BAY), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra...
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    The flag code also governs the protocol of flying the flag and its use in conjunction with other national and non-national flags. A number of flags with...
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    Bombay Castle (also Casa da Orta) is one of the oldest defensive structures built in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The current castle is a structure...
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  • Elections to the Bombay Legislative Assembly were held on 25 February 1957. 1146 candidates contested for the 339 constituencies in the Assembly. There...
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  • Flags of India. This is a list of flags used in India by various organizations. Flags seen at Indian Army bases "Strangely, the Indian national flag seems...
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    Elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Bombay were held on 26 March 1952. 1239 candidates contested for the 268 constituencies in...
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    The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and...
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    King Charles II transferred control of Bombay to the East India Company. The Company then adopted a new flag including the King's Colours, as was shown...
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    naval ratings. Sporting white flags spattered with fake blood, around 1,000 airmen occupied the Marine Drive of Bombay. The contingent issued their own...
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  • The Bombay Scottish School, Mahim, popularly known as Scottish, is a private, Christian co-educational day school located at Mahim West in Mumbai, India...
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    The Bombay Gymkhana, established in 1875, is a premier private members' club in the city of Mumbai, India. It is located at the triangular end of Azad...
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    The Bombay explosion (or Bombay docks explosion) occurred on 14 April 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, India) when the...
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  • Bombay High Court. Tyabji was nominated to the Bombay Municipal Corporation, he was a member of the University of Bombay and appointed to the Bombay Legislative...
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    flags are hoisted at different strategic locations across the state and the Kannada anthem ("Jaya Bharatha Jananiya Tanujate") is chanted. The flag is...
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    Mumbai Port (also known as the Bombay Port) is a port which lies midway on the west coast of India, on the natural deep-water Mumbai harbour in Maharashtra...
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    Shivaji and the Maratha Empire Emblem of the Bombay Presidency during the British Raj Emblem of the former Bombay State Jawhar State Kolhapur State Kolhapur...
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    Bhikaiji Cama (category People from Bombay Presidency)
    figures in the Indian independence movement. Bhikaiji Cama was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in a large, affluent Parsi Zoroastrian family. Her parents...
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  • The Bombay Scottish School, Powai (BSS or BSS Powai), also popularly known as Scottish, is a private, Christian co-educational day school located in Powai...
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    the modernisation of Bombay Airport in 1996 although the AAI board approved a modernisation proposal only in 2003. By then, Bombay and Delhi Airports were...
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    tanks. The next major train was run between Virar and Churchgate by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (now Western Railway), in April 1867....
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  • Indigenous tribals have inhabited Mumbai (Bombay) since the Stone Age. The Kolis and Aagri (a Marathi-Konkani people) were the earliest known settlers...
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  • is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during the Quit India Movement in 1942. Post-independence...
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    was named the Bombay Marine (1686), the Bombay Marine Corps (1829), the Indian Navy (1830), Her Majesty's Indian Navy (1858), the Bombay and Bengal Marine...
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  • with British forces by flying distinctive red and white flags which exist today as the flags of the respective emirates. The treaty was part of the UK's...
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    viceroyalty was transferred from Cochin to Goa in 1530. From 1535, Mumbai (Bombay) was a harbour of Portuguese India, known as Bom Bahia, until it was handed...
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    Mumbai Metro (redirect from Bombay Metro)
    September 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013. "Maharashtra CM Prithivraj Chavan flags off Mumbai Metro". The Times of India. 8 June 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014...
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    with India, and presents a number of internal communications between the Bombay Government and its officials, which shed doubt on many of the key charges...
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    father retired in 1930. In 1932, when Usha was 12, her family moved to Bombay, making it possible for her to participate more actively in the freedom...
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