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* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay ), Maharashtra, India.
The name " Bollywood " is a portmanteau derived from Bombay ( the former name for Mumbai ) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.
Bombay Sapphire is a brand of gin distributed by Bacardi that was launched in 1987.
Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
Bombay Sapphire is marketed in a flat-sided, sapphire-coloured bottle that bears a picture of Queen Victoria on the label.
Water from Lake Vyrnwy is added to bring the strength of Bombay Sapphire down to 40. 0 % ( UK, Australia ).
The best known is the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition, held each year, where design students from all over the world can participate by designing their own “ inspired ” martini cocktail glass.
Bombay Sapphire also endorses glass artists and designers with the Bombay Sapphire Prize, which is awarded every year to an outstanding design which features glass.
Bombay Sapphire also showcases the designers ' work in the Bombay Sapphire endorsed blue room, which is actually a design exhibition touring the world each year.
* 1885 – Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.
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.
* 1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
He is, however, an active, able, and trustworthy Commander, in good health, well-known to your friends in Bombay, to the Lyalls in Calcutta, and to our friends in China.
* December – The Gateway of India is constructed in Bombay, to commemorate Queen Victoria's reign as Empress of India.
** Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces.
** 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.
** The Bombay Natural History Society is founded.
* March 11 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.
* November 3 – The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded ( renamed The Times of India in 1861 ).
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.
The Center for Urban Science and Progress ( CUSP ) is an applied science research institute which will be a partnership of top institutions from around the globe, led by NYU and NYU-Poly with a consortium of world-class universities including: The University of Warwick, Carnegie Mellon University, the City University of New York, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Toronto.
Established in 1875, the Bombay Stock Exchange is Asia's first stock exchange

Bombay and named
Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.
In the late 1830s a wealthy Jew named Shemarya Luria attempted to purchase houses near the Wall, but was unsuccessful, as was Jewish sage Abdullah of Bombay who tried to purchase the Western Wall in the 1850s.
Other connections include with the Indian subcontinent, with wharves being named Bombay Court and East India court.
The town was named after a city in India, now known as Mumbai, by an early landowner whose wife was from Mulund, a prominent suburb of Bombay.
He came to the US in 1805 with his wife, an Indian princess and bought just north of what became the Adirondack Park, including the town of Bombay, which was named in honor of his wife's birthplace. It is the only USA town which is named for an Indian city His son, William Hogan, served as supervisor, and was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1822.
However, the Elphinstone Road railway station and the Elphinstone Circle, both in Mumbai city, are not named after him but in honour of his nephew, Lord John Elphinstone, who also later became Governor of Bombay in the 1850s.
As a consequence of national pride, anglicised names have been officially discouraged in many places: Ireland's Kingstown, named by King George IV, has reverted to its original Irish name of Dún Laoghaire ; India's Bombay is now Mumbai, even though this is not the oldest local name ( see Toponymy of Mumbai ) and " Bombay " is still commonly used in the city ; Calcutta is Kolkata and Madras is Chennai.
" When asked about his hobbies, the mayor named drinking Bombay Sapphire Gin as a favorite.
Grant Road (), named after Sir Robert Grant, the Governor of Bombay between 1835 and 1839, is currently a suburban railway station and former terminus of the erstwhile Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway.
It was named after Lord Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay from 1853 to 1860.
The American cat breed, named Bombay, was bred in 1958 in Louisville, Kentucky, when Nikki Horner of Shawnee Cattery deliberately bred an American Shorthair with a Burmese for the purpose of creating a domesticated cat that resembled a " miniature black panther ".
# The third bank named Bank of India was registered in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) in the year 1864.
A small road called the Hornby Road, named after the then Governor of Bombay ( Mumbai ) between 1771 AD and 1784 AD, also existed at the old Fort area.
The fountain was originally to be named after Sir Bartle Frère, the Governor of Bombay at the time, whose progressive policy had resulted in many of the great public buildings of Mumbai.
* Bombay duck, a fish named after Bombay
* The Bristol Bombay, a British bomber aircraft named after the Indian city
* Bombay ( ship ), a global list of ships named after the Indian city
Soon back in Asia, Sobhraj started rebuilding his clan, starting in Bombay with two lost Western women named Barbara Sheryl Smith and Mary Ellen Eather.
It was named ' Serapis Room ' after the ship which brought the Prince to Bombay.
Over time it was named the Bombay Marine, Her Majesty's Indian Navy, Her Majesty's Indian Marine and the Royal Indian Marine, until being renamed the Royal Indian Navy in 1934.

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