Parel

{{About|the neighbourhood in Mumbai|other uses|Parel (disambiguation)}}

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| name = Parel

| native_name = Paraḷ

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| settlement_type = Neighbourhood

| image_skyline = ওরলির গগনরৈখিক দৃশ্য.jpg

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| image_caption = A view of Lower Parel's skyline

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| coordinates = {{coord|18.99|N|72.84|E|region:IN|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = India

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Maharashtra

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Mumbai City

| subdivision_type3 = City

| subdivision_name3 = Mumbai

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| population_demonym = Parelkar, Paralkar

| demographics_type1 = Language

| demographics1_title1 = Official

| timezone1 = IST

| utc_offset1 = +5:30

| postal_code_type = PIN

| postal_code = 400012{{cite web|url=https://indiapincodes.net/Maharashtra/Mumbai/Parel/|title=Pin code : Parel, Mumbai

|access-date=10 February 2021|publisher=indiapincodes.net}}

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| demographics1_info1 = Marathi

| blank2_name_sec1 = Lok Sabha constituency

| blank2_info_sec1 = Mumbai South

| blank3_name_sec1 = Vidhan Sabha constituency

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Parel (ISO: Paraḷ, pronunciation: [pəɾəɭ]) is a neighbourhood in the south of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. {{cite book|last=D'Cunha|first=Jose Gerson|title=The Origins of Bombay|publisher=Asian Educational Services|location=Bombay|year=1900|edition=3|pages=265|chapter=IV The Portuguese Period|isbn=81-206-0815-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=miD5YO05jpUC&q=the+origins+of+bombay|access-date=2009-01-04}} 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 Parel housed a large number of textile mills, but has gradually evolved into a business district, as most mills have been replaced by commercial office spaces and high-rise residential development.{{cite news |last=Kailash Babar |date=9 May 2012 |title=Mumbai's Lower Parel: One of the most coveted piece of real estate in the country's financial capital hard to sell |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/personal-finance-news/mumbais-lower-parel-one-of-the-most-coveted-piece-of-real-estate-in-the-countrys-financial-capital-hard-to-sell/articleshow/13066443.cms |access-date=10 December 2016 |work=The Economic Times |publisher=The Times Group}}

History

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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.ASI; Michell, 355 The name Parel has its roots from the Parali Vaijanath Mahadev temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.{{Cite web|url=http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical-articles/links/power-supply-mumbai-bombay-india/parel.shtml|title=Parel belonged to the 13th Century, from another shrine to shiva|access-date=2020-07-02|website=www.geni.org}}

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.Corpus Inscriptions Indicarum, Vol. 6, p. 161-162. https://archive.org/stream/corpusinscriptio014678mbp#page/n391/mode/2up

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.{{cite web |title=Government House, Parell [Parel, Bombay]. |url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/g/019pho000000937u00022000.html |publisher=British Library |access-date=9 May 2019}} 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.{{Cite book|title=Waldemar Mordekhaï Haffkine (1860-1930). Biographie intellectuelle|last=Hanhart|first=Joël|publisher=Éditions Honoré Champion|year=2016|location=Paris}}

It was a district in Girangaon, which was the focus of the Great Bombay textile strike of 1982.[http://www.indialabourarchives.org/publications/Hemant%20Babu.htm Death of an Industrial City: Testimonies of Life Around Bombay Textile Strike of 1982] Indian Labour Archives {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060506002529/http://www.indialabourarchives.org/publications/Hemant%20Babu.htm |date=6 May 2006 }}

Politics

Parel was a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Maharashtra from 1962{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_1962/StatRep_Maharastra_1962.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MAHARASHTRA|access-date=24 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417164907/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Maharastra_1962.pdf|archive-date=17 April 2018|url-status=dead}} to 2004.{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2004/StatisticalReports_MH_2004.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2004 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MAHARASHTRA}} It was constituted into Shivadi constituency by the Delimitation of Parliament and Assembly Constituencies Order of 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/currentelections/consolidated_order%20_eci%20.pdf|title=DELIMITATION OF PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES ORDER, 2008|access-date=24 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003220916/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|archive-date=3 October 2018|url-status=dead}}

Gallery

File:The World Towers Mumbai.jpg| Lodha World Towers

File:Lodha Trump Tower and Marquise.png| Lodha the Park Towers

File:Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - panoramio.jpg| Motilal Oswal building

File:360 west towers,Lower parel,Mumbai.jpg| An aerial view of Lower Parel

File:One Avighna park.jpg| One Avighna Park

File:Phoenix mills.jpg| Phoenix Mills chimney

File:McDonald's in Worli, Mumbai, India.jpg| High Street Phoenix

File:Indiabulls Sky.jpg| Indiabulls Sky Tower

Parel

History

Politics

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