Dadar station (E) with a view of the Shri Swaminarayan BAPS mandir.

Dadar (Marathi:दादर) is a place in Mumbai, and has a railway station on the Mumbai Suburban Railway on both the Western Railway line (Dadar) and the Central Railway line (Dadar T.T.). Dadar has the only railway station common to both the Central line and the Western line; this makes it a transit point and the most crowded railway station on the Mumbai Suburban Railway. Download high resolution version (480x640, 53 KB)Dadar, Mumbai. ... Download high resolution version (480x640, 53 KB)Dadar, Mumbai. ... A reference to BAPS may be alluding to any of the following: B*A*P*S (The Film):B*A*P*S is the 1997 comedy film, written by Troy Beyer. ... Marathi is one of the widely spoken languages of India, and has a long literary history. ... Look up Place in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... , “Bombay” redirects here. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ... Suburban rail network. ... The Western Railway is one of the 16 zones of Indian Railways, and is among the busiest railroad networks in India. ... Central Railway headquarters at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus The Central Railway is one of the 16 zones of Indian Railways, and is one of the largest. ...

Dadar is divided into East and West by the railway line. Dadar East is popularly called Dadar T.T. because it housed the Dadar Tram Terminus which was closed with the closure of the tram network. It is also called Dadar Central as it lies along the Central Line. Dadar West is (not so commonly) referred to as Dadar B.B. as it lies along the western line, earlier a part of the Bombay & Baroda Railroad. Dadar West market is a very popular shopping destination for residents of central Mumbai. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST, internally called HT-7U) is a project being undertaken to construct an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. ... A compass rose with west highlighted This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation). ... This article refers to public transport vehicles running on rails. ... Vadodara, also known as Baroda, is the third-most populated town in Gujarat after Ahmedabad and Surat (the three towns with a population of over 1 million in Gujarat). ...

Dadar is home to the famous Shivaji Park, a huge playground which has been home to some of the best cricket players in the world, including Sachin Tendulkar. One of the largest primary and secondary schools in Mumbai is in Dadar. It is called the Indian Education Society (IES) School. There are English, Marathi and English medium schools from 1st grade till 10th. Several thousand students attend these schools every day. Dadar is also home to Agrawal Classes, one of the oldest coaching classes in the city, providing coaching to students for the 12^th grade board and IIT-JEE examinations. Shivaji Park is one of Mumbais most important open spaces and is situated in the central Dadar area of the city . ... Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ... Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar   (Marathi: सचिन तेंडुलकर; born 24 April 1973) is a current Indian cricketer who was rated by Wisden (2002) as the second greatest Test batsman ever[1] after Sir Don Bradman. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Dadar is home to the Plaza movie theatre which was damaged during the 1993 bomb-blasts/riots. It has now re-opened and remains one of the few theatres in Mumbai that show Marathi movies albeit almost as a Matinee show. The 1993 Bombay bombings were a series of thirteen bomb explosions that took place in Bombay (now Mumbai), India on March 12, 1993. ... Marathi is one of the widely spoken languages of India, and has a long literary history. ...

It is also home to the Mayor's Bungalow, of Mayor of Mumbai and the famous Sena Bhavan The Mayor of Mumbai is the first citizen of the Indian city of Mumbai. ... Sena Bhavan is the building which houses the central office of the Shiv Sena in Mumbai. ...

Dadar is also famous for Ideal Book Store. A few steps from Dadar railway station are famous restaurants like Mama Kane & Manju wadewala.

History

The Dadar-Matunga-Wadala-Sion scheme of 1899-1900 was the first planned suburban scheme in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The City Improvement Trust formulated this plan in order to relieve congestion in the centre of the town, following the plague epidemics of the 1890s. According to the survey plan, 60,000 people were to be housed at Dadar-Matunga and an equal number in Sion-Matunga. 85,000 people were to be accommodated in the developments in Sewri-Wadala. Matunga is the name of a railway station on the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. ... Vadala road is a small station on the Harbor Line of Bombays railway line which is different from the Western and the Central line. ... Sion (Sheev in Marathi) is a suburb of Mumbai. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... Sewri is a suburb of Mumbai. ...

The plans regulated constructions with emphasis on proper sanitation. No building was to be more than three storeys high, and the buildings were to have open spaces between them. The land-use was planned to be a mix of residential, commercial and institutional constructions. Parks and gardens were planned, and the streets were well laid out.

440 acres (1.8 km²) of land was procured and leased to the Government for selling. For the first time housing cooperatives were formed to take advantage of newly developed land. The Parsi and Hindu colonies in Dadar and the Tamil colony in Matunga were developed in this way. A Parsi (Gujarati: PārsÄ«, IPA: ), sometimes spelled Parsee, is a member of the close-knit Zoroastrian community based in the Indian subcontinent. ... A Hindu ( , Devanagari: हिन्दु), as per modern definition, is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, and the religious, philosophical and cultural system that originated in the Indian subcontinent. ... Languages Tamil Religions Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism Related ethnic groups Dravidian people Brahui people Kannadigas Malayalis Tamils Telugus Tuluvas Gonds The Tamil people are a multi-ethnic group from the Indian subcontinent with a recorded history going back more than two millennia. ...

Dadar was 6 miles away from Crawford Market by the newly constructed Mohammedali Road. The tramways were extended to this new suburb. The GIP constructed a bridge, now the Tilak Bridge, connecting the two suburban railways. In February 1925, the GIP (Great Indian Peninsular) Railways opened their suburban line, and started the work of electrifying the railways. Crawford Market is one of Bombays most famous markets. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Among the institutions moved to Dadar according to the CIT plan were VJTI and King George School, now called the Indian Education Society's Raja Shivaji High School. Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) (formerly known as Victoria Jubilee Technological Institute) is an engineering college in Mumbai, India (established 1887). ...

Hand-in-hand with the development of the northern suburbs in the 1930s there was a lot of activity in the Dadar-Matunga area. The Hindu Colony, north of Tilak Bridge, expanded up to Amber's Marge (then Kingsway) and around the Khodadad Circle. These developments were completed by 1935. In 1937 Ramnarain Ruia College was founded and in 1939 the Ramniranjan Podar College(both run by SP Mandali), thus completing a transition of Dadar from a residential suburb into a variegated enclave. Face The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Ruia College, is an educational institution in the central part of Mumbai, between the Dadar and Matunga railway stations. ...

By 1937 Shivaji Park and the surrounding areas were developed. This public space was to become an important stage in the political drama which led up to India's independence, and later political history of Bombay unfolded in the same park. Shivaji Park ground is famous as the Cricket Education ground. Many cricketers like Ashok Mankad, Vinu Mankad, Vijay Hazare, Salim Durani, Shivalkar, Ajit Wadekar, Sunil Gavaskar, Sandip Patil, Vinod Kambli have trained here. Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Indian independence struggle incorporated the efforts by Indians to liberate the region from British rule and form the nation-state of India. ... Ashok Vinoo Mankad (born 12 October 1946 in Bombay) is a former Indian cricketer. ... Vijay Samuel Hazare (11 March 1915–18 December 2004) was an Indian cricket player from the state of Maharashtra. ... Salim Aziz Durani (born December 11, 1934, Kabul, Afghanistan) is a former Indian cricketer who played in 29 Tests from 1960 to 1973. ... Ajit Laxman Wadekar (born April 1, 1941, Bombay, India) was a former international cricketer from India. ... Sunil Manohar Gavaskar   (Marathi:सुनिल मनोहर गावसकर) (born July 10, 1949 at Bombay, Maharashtra), nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. ... Sandeep Madhusudan Patil (born August 18, 1956, Bombay) is a former international cricketer (1980-1986) from India. ... Vinod Ganpat Kambli   (born 18 January 1972, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra) is a former Indian cricketer. ...

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External links

• Important Information on Bus Routes through Dadar