The cotton mills that built the city, and what their land became.
Mumbai was built on cotton. The mills that gave the city its shape are mostly gone, but the trade they created remains — the cloth markets at Kalbadevi, the branded apparel companies headquartered here, and the powerloom and warehousing belt at Bhiwandi that feeds them.
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Hindmata and Dadar
Raymond, founded in 1925 as the Raymond Woollen Mill at Thane and built by the Singhania family, is the largest maker of worsted suiting fabric in the world, headquartered at Plantation House, Pokhran Road, Thane; its Th
Lower Parel and Parel
Bombay Dyeing, founded in 1879 by Nowrosjee Wadia, is the flagship of the Wadia group and the name most Mumbaikars associate with the mill era; its mills at Lower Parel and Worli are now Island City Centre and Axis House
Lower Parel and Parel
Century Textiles, founded in 1897 and the B.
Lower Parel and Parel
Mafatlal Industries, the textile company of the Mafatlal family founded in 1905, once ran mills across the city and now makes fabrics, uniforms and school-wear at Nadiad, headquartered at Mafatlal House, H.
Lower Parel and Parel
Morarjee Textiles, the Piramal family’s mill company descended from Morarjee Goculdas Spinning and Weaving of 1871, ran the Morarjee Mills at Parel, now Peninsula Corporate Park; its fine cotton fabrics are made at Butib
Mulji Jetha Market
Narandas Rajaram, founded in 1894, is one of the oldest cloth merchants of Mulji Jetha Market, the wholesale cloth market of Kalbadevi built in 1870s by the merchant Mulji Jetha; the firm was agent for the mills and deal
Mangaldas Market
The Cut Piece Cloth Association represents the traders of Mangaldas Market and the cut-piece cloth trade of the city, the merchants who buy mill production in bulk and sell fabric by the metre.
Mulji Jetha Market
Ghella Dayal & Co., in Mulji Jetha Market since 1850, is among the oldest cloth firms of the city, dealing in mulls and grey cotton cloth by the bale.
Mulji Jetha Market
Vallabhdas Madhavji & Co.
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