Bombay did not have respectable hotels even during the 1850s. There were some taverns but they did not attract the respectable folks, who usually found accommodation with friends or family. An enterprising Parsi set up the earliest modern hotel in Bombay with an in-house restaurant. I take up the early History of Hotels in Bombay in episode 7 of the series Bombay born. The episode focuses closely on the Watson’s Hotel, the first five-star hotel, as it were, in India, which is also where cinema, or moving images, was screened for the first time in India in July 1896. In fact, I begin with the advertisement about that very event.
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S4E6: BONUS EPISODE: The Explosion The Never Happened | Atomic India 6
S4E5: Afterlife Of The Explosion | Atomic India 5
S4E4: The Explosion | Atomic India 4
S4E3: India's Time To React | Atomic India | 3
S4E2: Homi Bhabha and The Travancore Diplomacy | Atomic India | 2
S4E1: The Reaction Begins | Atomic India | 1
S4E1: Introducing: Atomic India
S3E10: Bombayness and its pickle factory: a conversation with Amrit Gangar | Bombay Born 10
S3E9: The Voice of Bombay | Bombay Born 9
S3E8: The 1890s Housing Crisis in Bombay | Bombay Born 8
S3E6: Post Haste in Bombay | Bombay Born 6
S3E5: Scam 1865: Bank Of Bombay Falls | Bombay Born 5
S3E4: The Crash Of 1864-65 | Bombay Born 4
S3E3: 1857 and life in the Maidan | Bombay Born 3
S3E2: The Fort and the Maidan | Bombay Born 2
S3E1: The Harbour and the Cyclone | Bombay Born 1
S3E1: Introducing: BOMBAY BORN | (The Rise of Bombay)
S2E44: Shell Shock: An Early History
S2E43: Hill Boarding Schools in India
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