Why a number of farms were about the lives of migrant in bombay?
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Mumbai, a city where everyone believes dreams come true, was once made up of seven marshy islands off the west coast of the subcontinent of India, and was originally inhabited by fishermen, known as kolis. The islands were ruled by the Silahara Hindu rulers of Puri (810-1260 CE), who also built the city’s medieval Walkeshwar temple complex. It appears the islands became part of the maritime trading network of the north Konkan ports that the Silaharas controlled. This overseas trade brought in a floating population of traders and seafarers, including Hindus, Muslims, Arabs, Persians and Jews.
Prosperity came, and since then, Bombay has been a magnet for migrants, from the arrival of the Arabs of the Gujarat sultanate in 1348, to the Portuguese in 1534 who became the Roman Catholic converters of large swathes of Mumbai’s population, to the English in 1661.
Everyone came to Bombay — from the Gujarati-speaking trading and artisan communities to the Parsis (weavers, shipbuilders, carpenters, brokers), Bohri, Khoja, and Kutchi Bhatias. By the 18th century other communities, like the Bene-Israel Jews from the mainland Konkan, Baghdadi Jewish and Armenian traders from Surat, West Asia and Armenia respectively, made Bombay their home. These communities were largely seeking Bombay out for work (Bene-Israel), a refuge from persecution (like the Baghdadi Jews from West Asia), and from drought and political instability.