British monuments in Mumbai were constructed as the result of the rule of the British East India Company and later the rule of the British crown which ruled India. With the rise of British rule under the East India Company and the Raj.In the year 1661, theBritish East India Company acquired Mumbai(Bombay) as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza when she married Charles II, but as it was notorious for its insalubrious climate, for many years it remained subordinate to Surat.
St. Thomas's Cathedral, Mumbai, St Mary's, and St George's, Chennai (Madras) and St John's, Kolkata (Calcutta).After the painful events of the Sepoy Mutiny, the balance of British commercial interests changed. Kolkata remained pre-eminent, but Chennai became less important.
The Victoria Terminus, Mumbai, or VT, as it is famously known, is the finest Victorian Gothic buildings in India. Constructed between the years 1878 to 1887, Mumbai had been in the forefront of railway building. The Great Indian Peninsular Railway reached Thane in the year 1853.Read more : British Monuments in Mumbai
