Duval travelled across the Middle East overland via Aleppo and took a ship from Basra to Bombay, acquainting Governor-General of India Viscount Wellesley with the situation in Egypt.

In 1897, Joseph Conrad penned a novella titled The Nigger of the Narcissus, whose titular character, James Wait, is a West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London.

Bombay is named for the wife of Michael Hogan, an Irish ship captain who grew wealthy in the East India trade.

His second voyage, in 1936, was to India, by ship via Aden to Bombay.

Narrating a voyage in a clipper ship from Bombay to New York in the early 1860s, Clark wrote, " The anchor came to the bow with the chanty of ' Oh, Riley, Oh ,' and ' Carry me Long ,' and the tug walked us toward the wharf at Brooklyn.

The title character, James Wait, is a West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London.

Her father had been the Honourable East India Company's Governor in Bombay from 1742 to 1750, and had died on a ship off the Cape of Good Hope on the voyage home.

From the Cape of Good Hope the Jardiniere sailed across the Indian Ocean to the coast of New Holland ( Australia ) but two consecutive cyclones prevented the expedition from doing any work there and forced Baudin to take the ship to Bombay for repairs.

* Honorable Company's Ship, the prefix for a ship of the British East India Company ( as in HCS Bombay )

In 1720, near Bombay, Condent and his crew captured a huge Arab ship, which contained an abundance of treasure and valuables, to the tune of £ 150, 000.

It was formerly one of the principal country seats of the Dubash family, a Parsi ship chandler dynasty from Bombay who sold it to the Rahejas in the early 1970s.

A coast guard ship at the Naval Dockyard ( Bombay )

It was named ' Serapis Room ' after the ship which brought the Prince to Bombay.

The settlement of Bombay and hence the Bombay Hills are directly named after the ship Bombay, which landed in Auckland and brought settlers to the area, originally called Williamson's Clearing, in 1863.

The ship itself was named after the Indian city of Bombay ( now Mumbai ).

The Sapphire arrived at Liverpool on 13 October, and O ' Reilly transferred to another American ship, the Bombay.

in 1943, on a trip back to England to recuperate from ill health, he was waiting for a ship at Bombay when he happened to meet Mahatma Gandhi.

* 18 December-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived back in Durban with his wife and two sons but the ship was placed under a 5-day quarantine because Bombay was declared a plague-infected port.

* The " Childe Herold ", a British ship on route from Bombay to London is wrecked off Dassen Island, Cape Colony

The contract specified that the cotton would be arriving in Liverpool on the ship Peerless from Bombay (" to arrive ex Peerless from Bombay ").

While serving as an engineer aboard a U. S. Merchant Marine ship he arrived in Bombay, India for the first time on 12 February 1948.

Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

* He married, on December 7, 1929 ( civil ), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and December 13, 1929 ( religious ), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron ( 1898 – 1976 ).

In 2004 it was moved to Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay, in India ), to make it more accessible to the populations of Asia and Africa.

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay ), Maharashtra, India.

Gibraltar was a landing point of the long-range submarine cable that from Porthcurno, in the United Kingdom ran to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Bombay, over land to the east coast of India, then on to Penang, Malacca, Singapore, Batavia ( current Jakarta ), to finally reach Darwin, Australia.

For instance, " Sapphire and Tonic " for Bombay Sapphire, " Hendrick's and Tonic " for Hendrick's Gin ( garnished with cucumber to further distinguish it ), or " T & T " for Tanqueray.

Noted artists of Carnatic Music include MS Subbulakshmi, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar ( the father of the current concert format ), Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Prapancham Sita Raman, TN Seshagopalan and more recently Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Balamuralikrishna, K J Yesudas, N. Ramani, Lalgudi Jayaraman, umayalapuram sivaraman, Dr. Mysore Manjunath, Mysore Nagaraj, TM Krishna, Bombay Jayashri, etc.

She attended primary school in a variety of institutions in India and Europe, including Ecole Internationale in Geneva, Ecole Nouvelle in Bex, St Cecilia's and St Mary's convent schools ( both in Allahabad ), before graduating from the Pupils ' Own School in Poona and Bombay.

Botham did this in the Centenary Test in Bombay in 1979 – 80 ( 114, 6 / 58 and 7 / 48 ), the last match before he became England captain.

An exception to the decline of the musical film is Indian cinema, especially the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai ( formerly Bombay ), where the majority of films have been and still are musicals.

* Andrew Lang, The Poltergeist and his explainers, The Making of Religion, ( Appendix B ), Longmans, Green, and C °, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 324 – 339.

* The Bombay Edition ( London ), 1913-38 – 31 volumes

** Quit India resolution is passed by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee ( AICC ), which led to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India.

* Andrew Lang, Fetishism and Spiritualism, The Making of Religion, ( Chapter VIII ), Longmans, Green, and C °, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 147 – 159.

* Lang, Andrew ( 1900 ) Demoniacal Possession, The Making of Religion, ( Chapter VII ), Longmans, Green, and C °, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 128 – 146.

On 23 June 1661, a marriage treaty was signed, Catherine's dowry securing to England Tangier ( in North Africa ) and the Seven islands of Bombay ( the latter having a major influence on the development of the British Empire in India ), together with trading privileges in Brazil and the East Indies, religious and commercial freedom in Portugal and two million Portuguese crowns ( about £ 300, 000 ); while Portugal obtained military and naval support against Spain and liberty of worship for Catherine.

After suffering a massive heart attack ( his second ), he died on 15 December 1950 at Birla House in Bombay.

Rask's seminal work, A Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Zend Language ( Bombay, 1821 ), may have contributed to the confusion.

* Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet, of Bombay ( 1857 ), extant

* Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 1st Baronet, of Petit Hall, on the Island of Bombay ( 1890 ), extant

* Sir Jehangir Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, 1st Baronet, of Bombay ( 1908 ), extant

* Sir Currimbhoy Ebrahim, 1st Baronet, of Pabaney Villa, of Bombay ( 1910 ), extant

* Sir Jacob Elias Sassoon, 1st Baronet, of Bombay ( 1909 ), extinct 1961