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India Guide

Mumbai

Downtown Mumbai

Author Robert Byron (of Road to Oxiana fame) – a wholehearted fan of New Delhi – was unenthusiastic about downtown Mumbai, which he described as "that architectural Sodom". Some of the city's finest piles line the streets immediately north of Colaba. The district is known as Kala Ghoda ("Black Statue"), after the large equestrian statue of King Edward VII that formerly stood on the crescent-shaped intersection of MG Road and Subhash Chowk. Flanked by Mumbai's principal museum and art galleries, the neighbourhood is now a "cultural enclave" .