The Bombay Samachar is the oldest newspaper in India. It is published in Gujarati and is one of the most trusted newspapers of Mumbai (earlier Bombay) Gujarati can mean two distinct things: The Gujarati language is a language spoken in India and Pakistan, mostly in and around the Gujarat state. ... Mumbai (Hindi / Marathi: मà¥à¤‚बई) (pronounced in Marathi, and in English), formerly known as Bombay is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, and the most populous city of India, with a estimated population of about 18 million (2005). ... This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ...
History
In 1822, the Mumbai Samachar (also known as Bombay Samachar) began publishing in Gujarati and English. It continues to be published today, under the same title, making it the oldest continuously published paper in India and one of the oldest in the world. The first 122 years of this paper are unavailable to researchers as filming began only in 1944. 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Gujarati (ગà«àªœàª°àª¾àª¤à«€ GujarÄtÄ«; also sometimes Gujrati) is one of the 22 official language and 14 regional languages spoken in India. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
The paper was founded by a Parsi named Fardoonji Marzban. His descendant Pirojsha Jehangir Marzban (1876-1933) wrote under the pen name of "Pijam" and was known as "Mark Twain of the Parsis". This article is about (members of) the Parsi Zoroastrian community in and from India. ... Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer. ...
Sir Robert Grant (1779-1838) governed Bombay from 1835 to 1838 and was responsible for the construction of a number of roads between Bombay and the hinterland.
Bombay began to attract fortune hunters by the hundreds and the population had swelled from 13,726 in 1780 to 644,405 in 1872, in a little less than a hundred years.
By 1906 the population of Bombay was to become 977,822.
Bombay is located on the west coast of India and is the capital of the state of Maharashtra.
Bombay spans an area 438 km² on a peninsula on the island of Salcette.
Bombay is also the epicentre of India's film industry — Bollywood, which is the largest in the world in terms of the number of films produced annually.
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