Who discovered MUMBAI IN INDIA?

Question

Prior to maumbai it was Bombay. It was sold for Rs.1 for to somebody by Queen Victora of UK.

Answer 1

its was bombay founded by british then the localites changed it to mumbai which means land of the goddess mumba devi and it was never sold to queen victoria

Answer 2

The British people had found Bombay, which is currently known as Mumbai.

It was never sold to anyone..

Answer 3

actually bombay is the group of seven islands . it was founded by british people.

Answer 4

http://www.si-india.com/mumbai_guide/dis...

Answer 5

Mumbai was given as a gift and was not sold.

These are 7 islands and were not so famous as big city.  It got its fame when British people founded it as a harbour. Till  that time it was occupied mainly by  the fisherman community.  These islands were good ecosystems from where the fisherman community was getting good varieties of all sorts of  seafood. After industrialization these area or esturies were degraded due to release of industrial waste in these areas.  The seafood variety was lossed and the quality also. Naturally the fisherman community was compelled to change their ancestral business of fisherman.

Answer 6

Artefacts found near Kandivali in northern Mumbai indicate that these islands had been inhabited since the Stone Age. Documented evidence of human habitation dates back to 250 BC, when it was known as Heptanesia (Ptolemy) (Ancient Greek: A Cluster of Seven Islands). In the 3rd century BC, the islands formed part of the Maurya Empire, ruled by the Buddhist emperor, Aşoka. During its first few centuries, control over Mumbai was disputed between the Indo-Scythian Western Satraps and the Satavahanas. The Hindu rulers of the Silhara Dynasty later governed the islands until 1343, when the kingdom of Gujarat annexed them. Some of the oldest edifices of the archipelago – the Elephanta Caves and the Walkeshwar temple complex date from this era.

In 1534, the Portuguese appropriated the islands from Bahadur Shah of Gujarat. They were ceded to Charles II of England in 1661, as dowry[14] for Catherine de Braganza. These islands, were in turn leased to the British East India Company in 1668 for a sum of £10 per annum. The company found the deep harbour on the east coast of the islands to be ideal for setting up their first port in the sub-continent.