Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Chawl



A chawl is a type of building that is often 4 to 5 stories with about 10 to 20 tenements (referred to as kholis meaning rooms) on each floor,. Many chawls can be found in Mumbai where they were constructed in abundance in the early 1900s to house the people migrating to Mumbai because of its booming cotton mills and overall strong economy.
The above picture is of a chawl in Gamdevi.

13 comments:

  1. They should be marked as heritage buildings.

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  2. nice take & hope they are well maintained...

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  3. Mumbai's trademarking housing system. Many bigshots from Mumbai once lived in these structures! Nice shot.

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  4. My parents used to live in one of these in Byculla before I was born. Great pic.

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  5. Wonderful with very nice information about Chawl !!

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  6. Thanks for this. Most interesting photo and information. Are immigrants still flooding into Mumbai?

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    1. Yes the migrants still flood Mumbai but now there is no organised housing for them hence they slum it.

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  7. A telling image.
    Great one for the records.

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  8. Reminds me of the original area where Taarak Mehta ka Ulta Chushmah is based!

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  9. one of the best place to socialize after a long hard day at work. In the later years as the flats mushroomed in Mumbai, it was considered impolite to talk to ones neighbour.

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