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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S2E42: Public schools and ‘Manliness’
S2E41: A Princely Auction That Did Not Matter
S2E40: Museums as Instruments of Learning
S2E39: Indian English in the 1950s
S2E38: A brief history of the insurance business
S2E37: AIIMS and the Colombo Plan
S2E36: Heritage and History Today
S2E35: A 16th century Agony Aunt
S2E34: Insanity, lunacy and madness in colonial north India ft Dr. Shilpi Rajpal
S2E33: The Father of Western Education in India
S2E32: An Indian ICS officer in 1870s
S2E31: A new history of Art Cinema in India ft. Dr. Rochona Majumdar
S2E30: How First World War Made Smoking Popular
S2E29: How and When Did Coffee Houses Turn into Public Squares?
S2E28: The All-Women Hospitals During World War I
S2E27: Poor Diet To National Dish: Changing fortunes of Fish and Chips in Britain
S2E26: Netaji Bose at the India Gate
S2E25: From Khichdi to Kedgeree
S2E24: When Bombay Ballooned
S2E23: Chembur Forest and Horse Trams of Mumbai
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