All 7 Uses of
Mumbai
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- CHAPTER ONE — JUNE 21, 1895 Bombay, India†
Chpt 1Bombay = old name (pre-1995) for Mumbai -- the financial capital and largest metropolitan area in India
- We're moving past the cobra man and into the throng of people crowding every inch of Bombay's frenzied marketplace.†
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- "No one tried to keep Tom imprisoned in Bombay," I say, invoking my brother's name as a last resort.†
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- Bombay.†
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- The old men smile at me, an English girl lost and alone on Bombay's streets.†
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- I'm back on the streets of Bombay, as if I'd never been gone, screaming wildly while the young Indian man pins my flailing arms at my side.†
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- I stowed away on the Mary Elizabeth in Bombay.†
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Definition:
financial capital and largest metropolitan area in India