Kurla

Kurla
—  suburb  —
Kurla
Location of Kurla
in Mumbai and India
Coordinates
Country India
State Maharashtra
District(s) Mumbai Suburban
Time zone IST (UTC+05:30)

Kurla (Marathi: कुर्ला ) is a suburb of Mumbai. It is also the name of one the busiest railway stations on the Mumbai suburban railway on the central and harbour railway lines of Mumbai. Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) (near Kurla) is a train terminus for some out-station passenger/express trains.

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History

In 1548, Kurla was one of six villages given by the ruling Portuguese to Antonio Pessoa as a reward for his military services. In 1668, Kurla was part of the islands leased out to the British East India Company. At this time, Kurla was connected to Sion by Sion Causeway.

The name Kurla originated from "Kurli", the local name for crab, (as these were found in plenty in marshes in the vicinity) before it became a sub-urban locality.

Coorla, as it was spelt during the British Raj, was a major station on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway ten miles north-east of Bombay, and with six other villages, Mohili, Kolikalyan, Marol, Shahar, Asalphe, and Parjapur, was the property of Mr. Ardeshir Hormasji Wadia, a Parsi merchant of Bombay, who paid for them a yearly quit-rent of £358 (Rs. 3587). The villages were originally (in 1808) given to Mr. Hormasji Bamanji Wadia in exchange for a piece of land near the Apollo pier gate in Bombay. The difference between the value of the villages and of the ground in Bombay, £864 (Rs. 8640), was at first paid yearly to Government. It was redeemed and the estate conveyed in fee simple in 1840-41. Kurla had two cotton mills, one of them, the Dharamsi Punjabhai being the largest cotton spinning and weaving mill in the Presidency, with 92,094 spindles and 1280 looms. The other was the Kurla Spinning and Weaving Mill . The village had a population of 9715, about half of them mill-hands, the rest — chiefly fishermen, husbandmen and salt-makers. The Christians, who numbered about 1500, had a church of the Holy Cross, built during Portuguese rule and rebuilt in 1848. It measures 125 feet (38 m) long, forty-seven broad, and forty-five high. Kurla is also well known by Mithi River .

The Mithibai Hormasji Wadia Dispensary was built by Mr. Bamanji Hormasji Wadia in 1855, and endowed by him with £1200 (Rs. 12,000). It was in charge of an assistant surgeon, and, in 1880-81, had an attendance of 7367 out-patients. The salt pans covered an area of about 66 acres (270,000 m2) and yielded a yearly revenue of £3418 (Rs. 34,180). There was also a considerable manufacture of shell lime. Kurla was connected with Sion on Bombay island by the Sion causeway, which bore the following inscription: ' This causeway was begun in May 1798 and was finished in January 1805, during the administration of the Honourable Jonathan Duncan Esquire. It cost £5037 (Rs. 50,374). It was doubled in width, and other improvements added, in 1826, under the government of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, at a further cost of £4000 (Rs. 40,000). The causeway was originally constructed under the superintendence of Captain William Brooks of the Engineers, and the additions and improvements made in 1826 under that of Captain William Tate of the same corps.'

Localities

Some of the areas in Kurla include:

Education

Kurla has one engineering college, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, and several schools. Some of the schools in Kurla are as follows -

Famous residents

Hopitals

Restaurants

See also

South Mumbai
Neighbourhoods
Eastern Suburbs
Neighbourhoods
Western Suburbs
Neighbourhoods
Navi Mumbai
Neighbourhoods
Thane City
Neighbourhoods
Mira-Bhayandar
Kalyan-Dombivali
Vasai-Virar
Bhiwandi-Nizampur
Ulhasnagar
Municipal Councils

Mehmood Durrani was great Urdu Poet born in Burhanpur. Kurla Station Chowk renamed in Honor of Mehmood Durrani right now it call Mehmood Durrani ChowkBail Bazar: Shingre wai : ghanashyam nanasaheb bhapkar (social worker)