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Malabar Hill (
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: Malabār Hill ələbaːɾ is a hillock and upmarket residential neighbourhood in
South Mumbai South Mumbai, colloquially SoBo from South Bombay in Anglo-Indian English, administratively the Mumbai City District, is the city centre and the southernmost precinct of Greater Bombay. It extends from Colaba to Mahim and Sion neighbourho ...
, Maharashtra, India. Malabar Hill is the most exclusive residential area in Mumbai. It is home to several business tycoons and film personalities. Notable residents include
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, the
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, Shashi Ruia and family, Pallonji Mistry, the
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family, the Petit family, the Shah family,the Sanghvi family,the bilakhia family, the Thakkar family etc. As of 2014 it is one of the most expensive areas in the world regularly featuring in the top 10 world wide localities. Prominent landmarks include the Chief Minister of Maharashtra's
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, Government Guest House Sahyadri, official residences of VVIP state officials and additionally the Hanging Gardens,
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and
Banganga Tank The Banganga Tank is a temple tank which is part of the Hindu Walkeshwar Temple complex in the Malabar Hill area of the city of Mumbai, India. History The tank was built in AD 1127 by Lakshman Prabhu, a minister in the court of Silhara king ...
.


History

Malabar Hill is the location of the
Walkeshwar Temple Walkeshwar Temple, also known as the ''Baan Ganga Temple'', is a temple dedicated to the Hindu god, Shiva located in Walkeshwar, near Malabar Hill neighbourhood, in South Mumbai precinct of the city of Mumbai, India. It is situated at the h ...
, founded by the Silhara kings. The original temple was destroyed by the
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, but rebuilt again in 1715 by Rama Kamath, and by 1860, 10 to 20 other temples were built in the region.British Library
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built the first
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in Malabar Hill while he was Governor of Bombay, between 1819 and 1827. Following his example, the place soon became an affluent locality, as it remains today.


Overview

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, the official residence of the governor of Maharashtra, 'Varsha', which is the official residence of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, 'Glenogle' the official residence of the General Manager of Central Railway (erstwhile
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) are located here. An unhindered view of
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, with the Girgaon Chowpatty beach in the foreground, and the
Nariman Point Nariman Point is a prominent downtown area of Mumbai in Maharashtra, India. Located on the southern tip of the Mumbai peninsula, at the end of the Mumbai's Marine Drive, Nariman Point houses some of India's prestigious business headquarters. ...
skyline in the background is one of the reasons for the high real estate prices. In January 2012, Maheshwari House was (partly) sold to industrialist
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of Jindal Steel for 400 crores. The most expensive private residence lies just outside Malabar Hill on Altamount Road off Pedder Road, namely Antilia, the 27-storey, billion-dollar tower in Mumbai, owned by India's second richest and the world's tenth-richest person Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries. Buses only started serving this area during World War II.
South Court Jinnah House is an unoccupied house in Malabar Hill, a premium neighbourhood of the city of Mumbai in India associated with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. It is also known as South Court and Malabar Hill mansion. It was built by M ...
(informally known as the '
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'), the former residence of
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, founder of Pakistan is also present here, but is closed to public due to property disputes. Also of note in the Malabar Hill district, there is a cremation ground that sits near the sea which is home to the samadhi shrines of several famous Indian saints. Notably among them is the samadhi shrine of the guru of Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj, who was Shri Siddharameshwar Maharaj, as well as the samadhi shrine of his devoted disciple Shri Ranjit Maharaj. Amongst the notable people born in Malabar Hill included
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Gallery

File:Malabar Hill from Xavier's, Bombay LACMA M.90.24.4.jpg, Malabar Hill from St. Xavier's, Late 1860s, File:Malabarpoint governmenthouse bombay.jpg, ''Malabar Point'',
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, 1865. File:Hanging Gardens Malabar Hill.jpg, The Hanging Gardens at Malabar Hill (ca. 1905). File:Bombay10.jpg, Priyadarshini Park in Mumbai. File:Malabar Hill (aerial view).jpg, Aerial view of Malabar Hill. File:Mumbai 03-2016 27 skyline at Marine Drive.jpg, View of
Marine Drive, Mumbai Marine Drive is a 3 kilometre-long Promenade along the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road in Mumbai, India. The road and promenade were constructed by Pallonji Mistry. It is a 'C'-shaped six-lane concrete road along the coast of a natural bay. ...
from Malabar Hill.


References

* http://www.amazingmaharashtra.com/2013/04/malabar-hill.html {{Authority control Neighbourhoods in Mumbai Hills of Mumbai