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| Coordinates:18°58′01″N72°48′18″E / 18.967°N 72.805°E /18.967; 72.805 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| District | Mumbai City |
| City | Mumbai |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Corporation |
| • Body | Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (MCGM) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Marathi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 400026[1] |
| Area code | 022 |
| Vehicle registration | MH 01 |
| Civic agency | BMC |
Bhulabhai Desai Road, also well known by the old nameWarden Road (and the part at and near the swimming pool asBreach Candy), is a niche up-market residential and semi-commercial locality ofSouth Mumbai.
The area has many famous landmarks beside its long and winding stretch, from theBreach Candy Hospital to the Amarsons andTata gardens andLincoln House, former location of theConsulate General of the United States, Mumbai. The elite Breach Candy Club in the neighbourhood features the country's largest India-shaped swimming pool. Just off Bhulabhai Desai Road is the women-onlySophia College.
The 18th centuryMahalaxmi Temple, which honors the Hindu goddess of wealth and wisdom, is situated nearby on the edge of sea. It is one of the most famous temples of Mumbai and attracts millions of devotees and tourists each year.[citation needed]
The area falls under the 'D-Ward' of theBMC and shares the postal code 400 026 under theCumballa Hill post office. It lies 21 kilometers south ofChhatrapati Shivaji International Airport and just 2 kilometers from theMumbai Central station. It is well connected by local buses run byBEST.
Geographically, this road curls around theArabian Sea. Because of its picturesque location, real estate prices here are among the most expensive in the country.
The origin of the nameBreach Candy, first attested by 1828 at least,[2] is widely given as an Anglicisation of an Arabic-Marathi nameBurj-khāḍī ('the tower of the creek').[3][4][5] However, this interpretation is disputed. In seventeenth- to nineteenth-century English,breach had meanings including 'the breaking of waves on a coast', 'surf made by the sea breaking over rocks; broken water, breakers' and 'a break in a coast, a bay, harbour',[6] and may in the context of Breach Candy even have been used to refer to abreakwater at the location.[7] Thus, although thebreach part of the name could be an Anglicisation of a local word, it could simply be an English word in its own right. Meanwhile,Candy may be an Anglicisation ofMarathikhind ('mountain pass')[8] orKannadakhindi ('a breach').[9]
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Not long ago[when?], Breach Candy was sparsely populated with very few bungalows and mansions. Most of the residents were born intoold money. Some of these bungalows and mansions still stand. The Breach Candy House, the Breach Candy Swimming Club and theBreach Candy Hospital have been present since the time ofBritish rule.
At the northern foot of theCumballa Hill, in the part now called Breach Candy, was a temple to three goddesses—Mahakali,Mahalakshmi andMahasaraswati. A creek to the north separated the island of Bombay from the Koli island ofWorli. This creek was filled after the completion of theHornby Vellard in 1784. Soon after, the modern temple ofMahalakshmi was built here.
What are now the Amarson andTata gardens were landfills with abandoned construction trucks, cranes and bulldozers probably used in land reclamation projects.[citation needed] A few of these trucks were parked in a truck-sized garage behind Scandal Point. Similarly, trucks, cranes and bulldozers were seen abandoned on the land which is now known as Priyadarshini Park.
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