Question

Examine the conditions of people living in chawls of bombay.

Answer 1

The chawl is basically a type of residential building mostly found in Mumbai. Chawls are availed of by relatively poor but gainfully employed working-class families. Chawls were constructed in abundance during the early 1900s. Chawls are typically 4 to 5 stories tall, with between 8 and 16 tenements on each floor. The tenements referred to as kholis, which literally mean 'rooms'. People living in a chawl have little privacy. Families on a floor have to share a common block of latrines, each block containing typically 4 to 5 latrines. Chawls have a unique heritage value. They are good examples that show how peaceful different communities can live with each other. But i nchawls, neighbours get to learn each other's tradition and cultures and it exposes much learning into religions and beliefs. Chawls are also the place for the exchange of news about jobs-strikes riots, demonstr

Answer 2

Chawls ware multi storage a structured which had been viewed from 1860 in the 'native' part of the town .

life in Bombay Chawls reflected the contrasting image and disparities of urban life. while on one hand Bombay was a city of wealth ,splendour and opportunities the Charles reflected the reality of urban life -poverty dirt and disappointments .

more than 70% of the working population lived in the Chawls which wear divided into a room tenements and had no private toilets .



these houses were largely owned by private landlords, merchants and bankers looking for quick ways of earning money from an anxious poor migrants .


the people use Nandi bull ,magicians ,monkeys to entertain their self.


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