12th Aug 2015.
T.S.Dufferin and history of Mazagaon Pier
Our training ship Dufferin was moored one and quarter miles off Mazagaon pier and trained over 2200 cadets till 1972. Access was by launch from Mazagaon Pier.HISTORY
1) The word Mazagaon is from the Sanskrit "Matsya Gram", meaning fishing village. However, folk etymology derives it from the Marathi as "Maza Gaon", meaning my village.
2) The
Mazagaon Fort was a British fort , built around 1680. The fort was razed
by the Siddi general Yakut Khan , in June 1690. The fort was located at
the present-day Joseph Baptista Gardens, atop Bhandarwada Hill outside
the Dockyard railway station.After the British arrived in Bombay in the
1660s, they selected Bhandarwala hill as a site for the Mazagon Fort,
that was built in 1680-.razed by wars and clashes for power Mughals,
Portuguese British
3) Mazagaon Hill : Joseph Baptista Garden / Mazagon Hill / Mazagon Fort (Mumbai City) was built as a public municipal garden around a reservoir atop of the Mazagon Hill. It was named after an Indian freedom fighter "Kaka" Joseph Baptista.It provides a vantage view of the city, particularly the off-limit docks on the east side.
4) It saw many changes with Portuguese, Mughal and British dominance in succession and by the end of the seventeenth century, Mazagaon became an outlying suburb of Bombay.
5) In 1790 the docks at Mazagaon were completed. However Bycullah took over and Mazagaon became mostly a Dock Workers place.
NOTE: Dr. Buist wrote in 1851 that Bombay Island for most part rose in to round or nearly flat topped hills varying in height from 100 to 1000 ft. At that time there existed a belt of Coconut trees adoring the Shores of Bombay having within it an infinite variety of Woodland, Mountain, Lake and River Scenery every where. According to him Bombay island scarcely surpassed in picturesqueness and beauty anywhere in the world. Within one hundred years there was a tremendous change in Bombay. Many of the hills like Mazagaon hill (150 ft.) Chinchpokli Hill (150 ft.). Matunga Hill, Tardeo Hill had vanished from Bombay's topography. Even the hills like Malbar Hill, Worli Hill do not look like hills now. Most of the hills in Greater Bombay have already been digested by our greed for more land and for housing industry & other activities.
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Time passes all by.
Today there is nothing muchto recognise today.
The Mazagaon pier exists as the sole Silent Witness to the Dufferin era.
Salutations to the place.
Today it is a high security place to even access.
From earlier days a few pics attached.
TR
3) Mazagaon Hill : Joseph Baptista Garden / Mazagon Hill / Mazagon Fort (Mumbai City) was built as a public municipal garden around a reservoir atop of the Mazagon Hill. It was named after an Indian freedom fighter "Kaka" Joseph Baptista.It provides a vantage view of the city, particularly the off-limit docks on the east side.
4) It saw many changes with Portuguese, Mughal and British dominance in succession and by the end of the seventeenth century, Mazagaon became an outlying suburb of Bombay.
5) In 1790 the docks at Mazagaon were completed. However Bycullah took over and Mazagaon became mostly a Dock Workers place.
NOTE: Dr. Buist wrote in 1851 that Bombay Island for most part rose in to round or nearly flat topped hills varying in height from 100 to 1000 ft. At that time there existed a belt of Coconut trees adoring the Shores of Bombay having within it an infinite variety of Woodland, Mountain, Lake and River Scenery every where. According to him Bombay island scarcely surpassed in picturesqueness and beauty anywhere in the world. Within one hundred years there was a tremendous change in Bombay. Many of the hills like Mazagaon hill (150 ft.) Chinchpokli Hill (150 ft.). Matunga Hill, Tardeo Hill had vanished from Bombay's topography. Even the hills like Malbar Hill, Worli Hill do not look like hills now. Most of the hills in Greater Bombay have already been digested by our greed for more land and for housing industry & other activities.
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Time passes all by.
Today there is nothing muchto recognise today.
The Mazagaon pier exists as the sole Silent Witness to the Dufferin era.
Salutations to the place.
Today it is a high security place to even access.
From earlier days a few pics attached.
TR
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