Mumbai: Topographic Street Views
Gilchrist, Scott

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2014Description
Sign advertising Dharavi slum tour; Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India and the ninth most populous agglomeration in the world, with an estimated city population of 18.4 million. It was under British rule from the 17th century until 1947. According to writer Jan Morris, "Bombay is one of the most characteristically Victorian cities in the world, displaying all the grand effrontery of Victorian eclectism". Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 9/1/2015)
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topographical view; photographSubject
architecture, business, commerce and trade, contemporary (1960 to present), genre, Great Britain--Colonies, tourism, Twenty-first century
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