Rediscovering Mazagon through a book
The Hindu
‘The book is my parting gift to Mumbai’, says Captain Ramesh Babu.
Mazagon has a ubiquitous influence on Mumbai even as elite suburbs such as Byculla and Malabar Hill emerged with passing years. None can pass over the history of the archipelago. Now Captain Ramesh Babu, a former Project Director National Institute for Research and Development in Defence Shipbuilding, Kozhikode, has brought out a book on the forgotten history of Mazagon. Titled My Own Mazagon, the book attempts to discover for the general reader the history of the island that once upon a time had its own identity, inhabited by Kolis, Bhandaris and other natives. “Mazagon goes beyond the era when it grew mangoes for the Mughals. Under the Portuguese and subsequently falling into the hands of the British, Mazagon retained its geographical identity for two more centuries with its fort, dock, churches and gunpowder factory,” Capt. Babu, who is retiring on July 31, after an engineering career in Indian Navy and Mazagon Docks for four decades, says.More Related News