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  • Опубліковано 21 лют 2019
  • Ever wondered how areas like Worli, Byculla, Bandra got their names? Watch this video where Deeksha Sharma tells you the story behind the names of some areas in Mumbai.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 215

  • @Hamzasr
    @Hamzasr Рік тому +26

    Byculla - A rich Marathi person known as ‘Bhai’ owned a huge warehouse which is called as ‘Khala (L sounds like D in Marathi), Bhai cha Khala became Byculla.

  • @saviopashana
    @saviopashana 2 роки тому +28

    About Cotton Green: During the times of the EAST INDIA COMPANY, there used to be a huge empty plot of land in front of Town Hall (Asiatic Society), where Horniman Circle lies today. That was where cotton from Vidharba used to be procured and shipped over to Europe. That area what we now know as Horniman Circle was called Bombay Green. Eventually, this area was named Cotton Green. In the 1840s this market was shifted to Colaba, thereby changing the location of Cotton Green too! Eventually, when the Harbour Line commenced operations, they moved it to the current location and eventually that gave its name.

  • @imr4npat3l
    @imr4npat3l 5 років тому +124

    green come from Girni which is marathi word for mill :P

  • @HarshalModi-Grondmaster
    @HarshalModi-Grondmaster 5 років тому +14

    Byculla & Cotton Green are so, so wrong.
    There was no 'King Byculla'. It either comes from the 'bhaya' trees that grew on plains 'khala' here, or that there was a threshing mill 'khala', owned by a man named Bhaya.
    Cotton Green doesn't mean cotton mills or green grass - but a cotton exchange on meadows near Badhwar Park that was shifted to near the Cotton Green station in a green-painted building.
    Check out more of my research here, with sources: www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-behind-naming-the-stations-in-Mumbai/answer/Harshal-Modi

    • @munawwarshaikh8010
      @munawwarshaikh8010 2 роки тому +2

      Reddit, Quora aur ab UA-cam. Bhai tu sab jagah dhundta rehta h kya "How Mumbai places got their names" wale posts? /s

  • @neriv5500
    @neriv5500 5 років тому +65

    Nicely presented and very sweet anchor but I feel it was not well researched.
    Had the British found it difficult to pronounce the word SHOR, they wouldn't use another Hindi word CHOR for that.
    CHOR BAZAAR was indeed a Bazaar where stolen goods were disposed of at ridiculously low prices.
    BANDRA is derived from the local name Vaandre and not Bunder (port)

    • @shreyansshrishrimal1761
      @shreyansshrishrimal1761 2 роки тому +6

      Vandre is Marathi way of saying Bander, Bander is an arabic word for port commonly used by traders who used to bring their goods from Arabic contries. Also Clearly britishers used to find shor and chor tongue twisting and were more comfortable with a more used word that is Chor.

    • @soggycookie165
      @soggycookie165 Рік тому +1

      I've another interesting story. There were a lot of monkeys in bandra so vanar become vandra and then vandre, bandar in hindi so it became baandra and in english bandra.

  • @jayeshlimje7597
    @jayeshlimje7597 5 років тому +32

    "Kurla"
    का सही नाम कुर्ली.
    Which means "Crab's"

    • @TivenGonsalves
      @TivenGonsalves 5 років тому +3

      It doesn't means crab. It's a name of a crab. Language:'East Indian language' of the original inhabitants of Mumbai

    • @snaik9141
      @snaik9141 3 роки тому +1

      @@TivenGonsalves same in Konkani but we call it Kurlyo

  • @blowinminds
    @blowinminds 2 роки тому +15

    Today's Apolo Bandar ( The port where Gateway of India is standing) was once locally called as Palwa bandar (Palwa is fish) that Palwa turned in Polo by Portuguese, and then Apolo by Britishers. Thus Palwa Bandar (Bandar means Port in marathi not monkey) turned in Apolo Bandar.

  • @Elizabeth-jf5im
    @Elizabeth-jf5im 5 років тому +18

    Masjid station gets its name from a Jewish synagogue and not a mosque

  • @tarachandkurdia5949
    @tarachandkurdia5949 5 років тому +10

    Hanging garden is built over water tanks....so it's hanging garden

    • @CyclinGiraffe
      @CyclinGiraffe 2 роки тому +1

      Thanks. You did my part of the commenting

  • @goodwill8862
    @goodwill8862 5 років тому +8

    Loved it...this helps understanding our own pop culture

  • @shubhrochowdhury9857
    @shubhrochowdhury9857 3 роки тому +4

    Hey, thanks so much for sharing this beautiful and knowledgeable information about the names of the different places of mumbai. It is really very interesting.

  • @dushyantkhatri6792
    @dushyantkhatri6792 5 років тому +33

    Please tell me the story behind MULUND!!!!!!

  • @ActingKaQeeda
    @ActingKaQeeda 5 років тому +8

    There were seven bungalows here decades ago and hence the name. Exactly for four bungalows.

  • @thattravellingguy
    @thattravellingguy 2 роки тому +12

    You overlooked the most important one. That of BOMBAY. The Britishers called it Bombay. But it has now been rechristened to its original name, MUMBAI. This is because of MUMBA DEVI the presiding Devi of the region. Ask any business man and you will know that.

  • @DeepakKGangwar
    @DeepakKGangwar 5 років тому +2

    I liked how u made the story. Very refreshing

  • @magd4570
    @magd4570 Рік тому +2

    Here it is how Mumbai got its name: " Many fishing families were living in the suburbs of the modern city of Bombay. These fishing families were the old inhabitants of the city before it became Bombay. Their traditional deity was the goddess Mumbávatii. Vatii becomes bai in Maháráśt́rii Prákrta, so accordingly Mumbávatii became Mumbábai and, with the passage of time, Mumbái. The word mumbái has been common in both Marathi and Gujarati since that time and remains so. The British turned this Mumbái into Bombay and this “Bombay” became Bombái in Hindi and Bengali.... Recently the government of Maharashtra has changed the name Bombái to Mumbái. This is a praiseworthy action." - Shrii PR Sarkar

  • @abhijeet__patil_641
    @abhijeet__patil_641 4 роки тому +6

    Marathi me bunder mean port
    Marathi language se bhot name bne hai usne kha nhi😩😩

  • @blowinminds
    @blowinminds 2 роки тому +3

    Kala ghoda area is called as Kala Ghoda because of Prince of Wales. Yes, when he have firstly visited Mumbai, on his honour, his statue with a horse in black metal had been placed, though people started calling it Kala Ghoda!

  • @naomisworld4265
    @naomisworld4265 2 роки тому

    Thanks to this video...in this video I learned a lot about mumbai city and its name...

  • @akashrao7496
    @akashrao7496 2 роки тому +11

    For your information, it’s ‘कोळी’ with the hard ‘L’ sound & not ‘कोली’. Hence its कुळाबा & not कोलाबा. Same goes for वरळी which is the actual native pronunciation.

    • @saitama6698
      @saitama6698 7 місяців тому

      Obviously there will be pronunciation differences between languages, no need to be so insecure and get offended 😊

  • @reshamwalaoffice1064
    @reshamwalaoffice1064 5 років тому +10

    Pydhonie because people used to wash feet at pond before entering the masjid and Jain temple

    • @gazpachopolice7211
      @gazpachopolice7211 5 років тому +4

      There's a true anecdote about Holc Larsen, one of the founders of Larsen & Tubro. He was driving & got lost in Pydhonie during the Quit India movement. Just at that time a morcha passed him and an independence activist mistook him for a Britisher and yelled at him to "quit India". Larsen replied, "Gladly, if you help me quit Pydhonie first"

  • @blowinminds
    @blowinminds 2 роки тому +4

    Matunga have its own story, there was once huge number of Elephant called Mateng by local people found in Matunga, which was turned by Britisher as the area of Matunga, and then we have now Matunga

  • @ruchirasarma9293
    @ruchirasarma9293 2 роки тому

    Thank you for this video!! Loved the intro so much.

  • @nicku21negi
    @nicku21negi 5 років тому +2

    First video from Quint that I actually like..!

  • @surajmarchande95
    @surajmarchande95 Рік тому

    Thanks for this wonderful information...I always think of this names ...some are still I want to know...

  • @dimpu603
    @dimpu603 5 років тому +29

    OM Prakash mishra wali hai yeh.....bol na Aunty aahu kya...... Kya natak kiya tha isnay

    • @ArpanChandra
      @ArpanChandra 5 років тому +1

      Yeh Kya BC hai? :D om prakhash wali? SOT?

    • @randalthor9674
      @randalthor9674 5 років тому

      om Prakash wali aunty mil gai

    • @mitaghosh6655
      @mitaghosh6655 5 років тому

      Om prakash ek chutiya tha..ab bhi hai.. it was the bad past we had..

  • @fearlesspanther
    @fearlesspanther 5 років тому +8

    Fantastic 👍 I like the presentation given by girl

  • @DivijYT
    @DivijYT 2 роки тому +1

    thanks a lot didi pls make part 2 😘

  • @ilbertsubba420
    @ilbertsubba420 5 років тому +1

    Nice presentation dear Deeksha..I was not bored during entire episode

  • @krishnamurthyaiyer3022
    @krishnamurthyaiyer3022 3 місяці тому

    My home area is called Matunga. There are many stories how it came to be. One is that at one time , in remote times, the Ashram of Matanga Muni stood there, and was called Matangashram, which became Matunga .There is a temple there, which stood at the site of the Ashram, and is behind the Aurora theater. The name KIng's Circle, still called by the same name, was given in honor of King Emperor , Victoria's son, King Edward, when it was developed from a barren area to be the last outpost of then Bombay. At that time, Dadar was the last outpost, and the trams which were running till the sixties, ran till Dadar, and so was called the terminus, Dadar TT or Dadar Tram Terminus. The trams were lengthened to KIng's Circle in the late 30s, when BIT or Bombay Improvement Trust, started building in this area. BB Dadar was Dadar West, which was covered then by the Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway also known as BB&CI. We still call it BB Dadar, and Dadar TT, even though those two organizations do not exist anymore. Sion was the portugeese version of the word Shiv, where a Shiva temple Stood once or it may have been Shivaji's lookout fort. This fort existed even in the 60s, in all its glory.

  • @ahmedfazal6488
    @ahmedfazal6488 5 років тому

    Wow
    What a video.
    And the way she talkes that took me deep in!

  • @adityamuley87
    @adityamuley87 5 років тому +5

    It is said mulund got its name from buddhist monk who lived in that area for a while

  • @vishweshkeskar6608
    @vishweshkeskar6608 5 років тому +5

    You know i am new in MUMBAI❌😚🙄
    You know i am new in BOMBAY ✅😌😇

  • @saviorodrigues7852
    @saviorodrigues7852 Рік тому

    Amazing! I ❤️ Mumbai!!

  • @PerformerMundaa
    @PerformerMundaa 5 років тому +8

    interesting starting edit👏👏

  • @piyushjain2467
    @piyushjain2467 5 років тому +1

    Nice presentation. Keep it up.

  • @sachinpotdar391
    @sachinpotdar391 3 роки тому +2

    Very nice and interesting video clip., now in the year 2021 I am a retired employee of Mumbai port trust., born and brought up in my Mumbai., the most funny thing I liked was the name of chor bazar., even after staying in Mumbai for last fifty-five years I was not knowing that Shor Bazar became a chor Bazar., actually British people spoiled most of our names and uneducated people who had problems in pronouncing original names., thank you very much for uploading this beautiful vedio clip of Mumbai names., regards from retired employee of Mumbai port trust shri Sachin chandrakant potdar andheri west Mumbai.

    • @krishnamurthyaiyer3022
      @krishnamurthyaiyer3022 3 місяці тому

      Chor bazaar was in fact chor bazaar. In my youth, we used to go to Chor Bazaar, where stolen things could be bought for a song. Tata furnished his taj mahal hotel at Gateway, mostly from items bought here, and used to be considered without provenance, second hand, and hence chor bazaar.

  • @ExplorerDori
    @ExplorerDori Рік тому +1

    Was waiting for "Worli"

  • @ronaksingh5509
    @ronaksingh5509 2 роки тому +8

    Hanging Garden is not how it got its name, the place used to be cemetery for Parsi community, where Parsi's hanged the dead body because they believed life is a part of nature and so should be given back to nature. Also, the garden had vultures and crows, which eats almost everything from the dead, hence the place was used for cemetery.

    • @thattravellingguy
      @thattravellingguy 2 роки тому +2

      Parsi's don't hang their dead bodies. The dead body is placed on a dry well that has a wire net. The (vultures {now crows and kites} would scavenge the body and the bones would fall into the dry well, where it would over time and due to exposure to elements disintegrate to earth. The vultures would eat the body in 15 mins flat. Hence there was no decomposing odour etc. Now that the vultures are no more the scavenging process takes much longer. Hence solar inceneration is now being used.

  • @suniljani8653
    @suniljani8653 2 роки тому

    Nice info 👍

  • @theroadhittervlogs
    @theroadhittervlogs 3 роки тому +1

    I love this anchor!! She is so coool

  • @shrutinayak3942
    @shrutinayak3942 3 роки тому +1

    I ❤️ Mumbai my home city and my most favourite city in India 😇😇💖💖

  • @-Floydimus
    @-Floydimus 5 років тому

    Great video.

  • @wasimalibori2554
    @wasimalibori2554 5 років тому +5

    You didn't go to agripada, paiduni. And other places.

  • @romarji
    @romarji 5 років тому

    Put more videos like this.

  • @PardeepKumar-hp6rs
    @PardeepKumar-hp6rs Місяць тому

    please make vdo on all college of mumbai

  • @ayeshaahmadi2356
    @ayeshaahmadi2356 3 роки тому +1

    I love mumbai❤️

  • @rohitsarkar8577
    @rohitsarkar8577 2 роки тому

    Ghodbunder in thane name came from the port where ghodas or horses were sold to britishers for tradings via arabiansea.

  • @herambpatkar
    @herambpatkar Рік тому

    I thought colaba was named after Kulaba or Kolaba fort which is just of the coast down south of Mumbai's colaba

  • @rohan34
    @rohan34 2 роки тому

    In Guwahati there are areas called Survey and Wireless.

  • @user-rb1or5sp6m
    @user-rb1or5sp6m 3 місяці тому

    Andheri was called andheri because of darkness (andhera),same due to british military base at goregaon people would say woh gore logo ka gav hain

  • @Shivam.evolved
    @Shivam.evolved 4 роки тому +2

    Welcome to the city of SOT🔥

  • @Marathi_Trading
    @Marathi_Trading 2 роки тому +1

    Wrong information about bandra. Real name us Vandre. Many outsider speak Bandra and govt also used it, but now they rectified it and only Union Government offices used Bandra intentionally.

  • @pacificfinder
    @pacificfinder 2 роки тому +1

    You are the bolna aunty girl right? Damn...so much time has passed

  • @ActingKaQeeda
    @ActingKaQeeda 5 років тому +3

    It's SoMu, no more SoBo

    • @pumred
      @pumred 2 роки тому

      But we always like to call Mumbai as Bombay & CST as VT.

  • @roarofthetime2892
    @roarofthetime2892 5 років тому +1

    One Like for your sincere efforts..👍

  • @AdityaSingh016
    @AdityaSingh016 5 років тому +1

    Powai aur Goregaon ka kya ?

  • @RiddheshKhathuria
    @RiddheshKhathuria 5 років тому +7

    Malad

    • @airesdias1597
      @airesdias1597 2 роки тому

      Years ago, many quarries were located n were selling Malad stone, hence this area got it's name.

  • @amitamin4084
    @amitamin4084 2 роки тому

    N anchor awsome presentation....

  • @sahilp5401
    @sahilp5401 5 років тому +5

    Nice info.. But why call Bombay n nt Mumbai...Bandra n nt vandre.. Sion n nt Shiv... Why?? We r so concerned abt correct pronunciation of fashion brand names n European countries n places all over world.. Lyk restaurantns... Noo York City...Miami etc etc n wat not... ..hypocrits in denial state.... Often this ppl belong n landup nowhere..

    • @mezzmer5561
      @mezzmer5561 5 років тому

      Chup chutiye

    • @soggycookie165
      @soggycookie165 Рік тому

      It is Sheev, not Shiv as in the god

    • @saitama6698
      @saitama6698 7 місяців тому

      Because it is the English name , why are you guys insecure

  • @ruchithakar5656
    @ruchithakar5656 4 роки тому +1

    where is borivali

  • @Perky143247
    @Perky143247 5 років тому +3

    Finally, some informative video with a decent anchor. Superlikes!

  • @nickisworking
    @nickisworking Рік тому

    The intro was very well edited!

  • @joginathsahoo9358
    @joginathsahoo9358 2 роки тому

    Nice

  • @P4PYROIND
    @P4PYROIND 5 років тому +5

    Why malabar Hills??

    • @rohit.k7920
      @rohit.k7920 2 роки тому +1

      Malabar was old name for entire Konkan strip...
      People from Alibaug, use to visit that place for walkeshwar temple...
      Therefore, Malabar

    • @arjunps6776
      @arjunps6776 2 роки тому +1

      There were actually small hills on that island which were later flattened. Even today Malabar Hills is the highest area in Mumbai.

  • @pujajagtap6851
    @pujajagtap6851 2 роки тому

    Hw abt churchgate???

  • @amitamin4084
    @amitamin4084 2 роки тому

    Q awseome content.....

  • @teesrakinara
    @teesrakinara 5 років тому

    Shes cute, especially when she pronounce "here"

  • @ihaveaboyfriendmeh1026
    @ihaveaboyfriendmeh1026 2 роки тому +1

    arey ye wahi didi hai jisne Om Prakash pe case kia tha. hahahha

  • @Vishal_Kanade
    @Vishal_Kanade 3 роки тому

    ❤️ मुंबई

  • @GauravSingh-be8hl
    @GauravSingh-be8hl 2 роки тому +1

    How diva kopar Dombivli thakurli and kalyan got their name

  • @rwkanade
    @rwkanade 5 років тому +1

    most of your stories behind names are wrong. you need to reasearch more.

  • @deveshthakur749
    @deveshthakur749 4 роки тому

    This video is ,looking london talking Tokyo. The names of all this places has a very dark and scary origin . I know 2 places as 4 y its named the way it is (1)andheri , (2)colaba

  • @eliyageevarghese5392
    @eliyageevarghese5392 4 місяці тому +1

    Do Thane - kalyan

  • @vedanttripathi3685
    @vedanttripathi3685 4 роки тому +2

    This is research gone wrong🤣

  • @parikshitkengar4229
    @parikshitkengar4229 5 років тому

    Worli? Peddar road Crawford, nerul , radar, Parel,

  • @ShaikhNadeem
    @ShaikhNadeem 5 років тому +3

    Sandhurst road?
    Public ne ijjat lootli hai iske naam ki.. 😂

  • @NasirKhan-je6fi
    @NasirKhan-je6fi 2 роки тому

    Kurla was named after the crabs 'Kurli' that were found here

  • @pratiksha_patel13
    @pratiksha_patel13 Рік тому +1

    MUMBAI... MUMBAI... It is MUMBAI not Bombay... How difficult it is to say MUMBAI.

  • @JAMEELAHMED-js7dt
    @JAMEELAHMED-js7dt 3 роки тому

    Kehte hai ke navi Mumbai brhan Mumbai amchi Mumbai aise bhi kuch arias hai wo bhi jaroor dikhye,

  • @realhumphreyappleby
    @realhumphreyappleby 2 роки тому +2

    I don't buy the Shor-Chor argument. Why is chor easier to pronounce for the British than shor? Of course the entrepreneurs there will say that. And they're not wrong in that, I'd do the same haha.

  • @apologizetoyou6941
    @apologizetoyou6941 5 років тому +1

    Bol na aunty, aab mein aa gaya 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @LaggardInLove
    @LaggardInLove 5 років тому +1

    So in a nutshell, British hangover.

  • @cryptokachakkar906
    @cryptokachakkar906 2 роки тому +1

    Didi aap Sandaas Road bhool gayi

  • @PseudoSapiens
    @PseudoSapiens 8 місяців тому

    Bandra in वांद्रे in marathi

  • @Sanghani_
    @Sanghani_ Рік тому

    Karachi mai iss sai bhi khatarnak name hai 😂 ,
    2 minute chaurangi , juna market , khada market , bhimpura , gora kabristan , meethadar , etc ,

  • @arlenekallah9301
    @arlenekallah9301 5 років тому

    I live in seven bunglows

  • @misbahfiroz3281
    @misbahfiroz3281 2 місяці тому

    Bandra comes from the marathi word vandre which means monkeys

  • @ManpreetSingh-dm2hk
    @ManpreetSingh-dm2hk 2 роки тому +1

    Why Thane?

    • @akashrao7496
      @akashrao7496 2 роки тому

      Original name is supposed to be ‘श्रीस्थान’ from which the present name ‘ठाणे’ seems to have been derived.

  • @arjunps6776
    @arjunps6776 2 роки тому

    I'm sure Goregaon is not the village where British lived. 😂😂

  • @TivenGonsalves
    @TivenGonsalves 5 років тому

    By the way you were new in Mumbai so is it that the place from where u came gave you all this information.😂😂 Good one.

  • @shaziakhan-lq8tq
    @shaziakhan-lq8tq 5 років тому

    Sakinaka k naam ki kya story hai

  • @rajsingharora26
    @rajsingharora26 2 роки тому

    But why is andheri called ANDHERI ??

  • @ActingKaQeeda
    @ActingKaQeeda 5 років тому

    Seven bungalows and versova are not the same thing.

  • @zachmanoj
    @zachmanoj Рік тому

    Hi, that was super great info. Thank you maam. I would also like to include my opinion. khalla is an Afghani name. I recollect this name from the vlog of a bag pack traveller. And those times a large number of rich Afgani tradesmen had travelled and settled in Mumbai to do business. So maybe a rich businessman lived and flourished in byculla. Out of respect he must have been called "Bhai Khalla". So maybe why this area was referred to as Bhai Khalla's area. Secondly I feel that Bombay got its name from the city of Pompeii. It was a city in Italy with large number of bars. Pompeii was famous for wine, women and gambling. This city got ruined in a natural disaster. You can find details online. Maybe the British and European travellers referred to our city as Pompeii was mistook for Bombay due to the pronunciation. All other explanations sound fictitious and untrue.

    • @zachmanoj
      @zachmanoj Рік тому

      And same as Mumbai, even Pompeii was covered on 3 sides by the ocean.

  • @Cosmicssi
    @Cosmicssi 5 років тому +1

    OM PRAKASH 🤣🤣🤣

  • @RacHITDoshi
    @RacHITDoshi 2 роки тому

    Help me understand "Mulund"

  • @shantanuselokar6357
    @shantanuselokar6357 2 роки тому

    Mumbaikars namimg areas: yes this is big brain time!

  • @DanishQureshi-no8nk
    @DanishQureshi-no8nk Рік тому +1

    Kural ka Karu maam

  • @pratham6855
    @pratham6855 Рік тому +1

    AGHH FORGOT THE MAIN MUMBAI !!!!!
    JAHA BRITISH AYE (ĢIRNGAON)
    WELL IK U VISITED BHULESHWAR BUT U GOTTA MENTION ALOTA STUFF ID U R MAKING SUCH KINDA VID👀