Reasons for growth & importance of mumbai???

Question

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Answer 1

Mumbai is situated right on sea shore. Right from day of English rule the Port trust have been used for as much as transportation overseas. Since then the fast and secured transportation made Mumbai to grow fast. Earlier Mumbai was to declared as an independent state. Because there was too many business men came from Gujarat and settled in Mumbai. Whole lot of textiles mad Mumbai to grow like any thing. As compared to Mumbai other states never had such infrastructure facilities. So right from Maharashtra it self the crowd started to flow down to Mumbai first from Konkan and then from all over India. And the results are self explanatory.

Answer 2

Mumbai was a port city, with strategic location, suited best to European Traders who were coming to India. In fact 4 cities having similarity developed in early 18th century were London, Stuttgart, Karachi and Bombay(now Mumbai), have lot of similarities like go ethic design of buildings, Borse (Stock Exchange) and commercial credibility.

The best part of Mumbai is its multicultural existence with acceptance of any body from the world without any discrimination.

Answer 3

since it is one of the popular port for export and import

Answer 4

Can't say a reason for but the importance should be obvious. It is the most populated city in the world, the last time I checked. Also it is the commercial captial of India producing the a quarter of industrial GDP and a large part of martime GDP.