Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Mumbai

About Mumbai — A Brief History

Mumbai grew out of seven small islands off the western coast of India, fishing settlements that the Koli community had lived in for at least a thousand years before the Portuguese took the area in the sixteenth century. The Portuguese gave Bombay to the British in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II, and over the next two centuries the East India Company and then the British government joined the islands together with reclamation, built the docks at Apollo Bunder and the cotton mills of Parel, and turned the place into the second city of the Empire.

The early 1900s saw Bombay become the heart of the freedom movement, with the Quit India Movement launched at Gowalia Tank in 1942. After independence the city grew into India's commercial capital, with the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Reserve Bank of India and the headquarters of most of the country's biggest companies setting up here. The city was renamed Mumbai in 1995, after the Goddess Mumba Devi whose old shrine still stands at Bhuleshwar.

Today Mumbai is home to over 20 million people and covers the original islands plus the suburbs of Thane and Navi Mumbai. The film industry of Bollywood, the Bombay High Court, the Gateway of India, Marine Drive, Dharavi and the Bandra-Worli Sea Link are all part of its everyday face. Shree Mahavir Courier's Mumbai branches handle a heavy daily flow of office documents, film-industry dispatch, jewellery-trade papers and household parcels, with branches across the suburbs from Andheri and Bandra to Borivali, Thane and Navi Mumbai every working day.