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Neighbourhood in Mumbai City, Maharashtra, India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Parel (ISO: Paraḷ, pronunciation: [pəɾəɭ]) is a neighbourhood in the south of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. [2] Originally one of the Seven Islands of Bombay, Parel became an industrial center after the unification of the islands of Bombay. Parel housed a large number of textile mills, but has gradually evolved into a business district, as most mills have been replaced by commercial office spaces and high-rise residential development.[3]
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Originally, Parel was a separate island, one of the Seven Islands of Bombay.
The Parel Relief or (Parel Shiva) is an important monolithic relief of the Hindu god Shiva in seven forms. It is dated back to the late Gupta period, in the 5th or 6th century AD by the ASI. It was found in Parel when a road was being constructed in 1931, and moved to the nearby Baradevi Temple, where it remains in worship, in its own room.[4] The name Parel has its roots from the Parali Vaijanath Mahadev temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.[5]
An inscription dated 26 January, 1187 (Paurnima of Magha, Saka 1108) is found there. It records a grant made by Shilahara king Aparaditya II out of the proceeds of an orchard in a village named Mahavali (close to Kurla) for a Vaidyanatha temple.[6]
In 1771 William Hornby, the Governor of Bombay, moved into the former friary, which became known as Government House, and a number of mills were subsequently established nearby.[7] In 1883, the Governor's wife died of cholera in the house and two years later, the Governor's Mansion was moved to Malabar Point. During the plague epidemics of the 1890s, the old Government House was leased to the newly founded Haffkine Institute.[8]
It was a district in Girangaon, which was the focus of the Great Bombay textile strike of 1982.[9]
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Politics
Parel was a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Maharashtra from 1962[10] to 2004.[11] It was constituted into Shivadi constituency by the Delimitation of Parliament and Assembly Constituencies Order of 2008.[12]
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Motilal Oswal building
An aerial view of Lower Parel
Phoenix Mills chimney
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