Bombay Castle is one of the oldest defensive structures built in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The current castle is a structure built by the British on the site of a manor built by a Portuguese nobleman Garcia de Orta. Orta had leased the island of Bombay from the King of Portugal between 1554 and 1570. Mumbai (Hindi/Marathi: मुंबई) (pronounced ), formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, and the most populous city of India, with an estimated metropolitan population of about 12 million (As of 2005). ... Garcia de Orta was a Renaissance Portuguese medical doctor and naturalist. ... This is a List of Portuguese monarchs from the independence of Portugal from Castile in 1139, to the beginning of the Republic in October 5, 1910. ...

The castle was built of local blue Kurla stone and red laterite stone from the Konkan region to the south. In 1662, after the islands came under the hands of the British, the British East India Company took possession of the castle in 1665. Over the next ten years, they built a defensive structure around the manor. Around the same time, a wall was being built around a new urban centre. The wall was later demolished in 1865 after the city grew rapidly. Fragments of this wall however still exist in some areas. Laterite is a red-colored clay rich soil found in the tropics and subtropics. ... The Konkan, also called the Konkan Coast or Karavali is the name given to a stretch of rugged and beautiful section of the western coastline of India from Ratnagiri to Mangalore. ... The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was a joint-stock company string of investors, which was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India. ...

Few records of the original Portuguese castle remain and historians are trying to piece together the original location of the manor. Two gates of the manor are located within INS Angre, a naval station in South Mumbai. A sundial thought to date back to the Portuguese era is also present. This sundial does not mark out the 12 hours of a day, but marks out certain periods which are deemed to be important to people of those days. Components Indian Army Indian Air Force Indian Navy Indian Coast Guard Indian Paramilitary Forces Strategic Nuclear Command History Military history of India British Indian Army Indian National Army Ranks Air Force ranks and insignia of India Army ranks and insignia of India Naval ranks and insignia of India Related Info... South Mumbai South Mumbai (also referred to as South Bombay) is a geographic region in the city of Mumbai, India. ... Wall sundial Wall sundial in Warsaws Old Town Pocket size sundial A sundial measures time by the position of the sun. ...

The main building within this castle is the Governor's House in which Gerald Aungier, the first Governor of Bombay used to stay. The residence was later moved to Parel and then to Malabar Hill over the next two centuries. The current building houses the offices of the Flag Oficer Commander-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command. Gerald Aungier was the second Governor of Bombay. ... British East India Company Governors (1668–1862) 1668–1669: Sir George Oxeden 1689–1677: Gerald Aungier 1677–1681: Gen. ... Parel is a suburb of Mumbai. ... Malabar Hill is a small hillock in southern Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, and is the location of the Walkeshwar Temple, founded by the Silhara kings. ...

References

• Navy steps in to restore historic fort; Anjali Joseph/TNN; Times of India newspaper (Mumbai}; pg-2; 2006-03-27

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