Bombay
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the former English name of Mumbai
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a breed of black short-haired medium-sized cat
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India's second-largest city, after Calcutta, Bombay is the only natural deep-water harbor in western India.
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Prakash says their exhibition is titled "Bombay Framed" rather than "Mumbai Framed" simply because most of the images come from a time when the city was officially known as Bombay.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
The crowded, corrupt Bombay of the mid-1990s is home to the Vakeels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
From Nana, Sadia heard beguiling stories about her grandmother’s young life in Bombay and later years in Karachi, Pakistan, where she fled after the 1947 Partition of India.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
At the start of this year, a video popped up on social media sites in India showing the chief executive of the Bombay Stock Exchange, Sundararaman Ramamurthy, giving investors advice on which stocks to buy.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
And when, in 1662, England’s Charles II married Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, she brought Bombay as part of her dowry, and a taste for tea to the English court.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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