Author: Bhumi Ravani

Lord Dalhousie dedicated the first passenger railway train, which travelled between Bombay's Bori Bunder station and Thane on April 16, 1853 in India, three steam locomotives, the Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan, pulled the 14-car train. Interesting Facts of first railway train in India 1853 From Bombay to Thane, the first railway on the India ran for 21 miles. During a visit to Bhandup in 1843, Mr. George Clark, the Bombay Government's Chief Engineer, had the idea of building a railway to connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan, and the Thal and Bhore Ghats inclines. The ceremonial inauguration event took place on April 16, 1853, when 14 railway coaches carrying roughly 400 visitors left Bori Bunder at 3.30 p.m. "amidst the loud applause of a great throng and the salute of 21 cannons," accor...

The movement of all Marathi speaking people to establish a state based on the principle of linguistic regionalism is called Samyukta Maharashtra Andolan or movement. This movement started in the pre-independence period and ended on May 1, 1960 with the formation of United Maharashtra with Mumbai. Samyukta Maharashtra Movement was the largest mass movement in Maharashtra between 1950 and 1960, in which a total of 105 people was killed in police firing. The beginning of linguistic unity among Marathi speaking people In the twelfth century, the awareness of political and cultural identity among the Marathi speaking people started increasing but politically the Marathi speaking people remained scattered. During the British rule, Marathi speaking people were divided into Mumbai State...