Mumbai
Mumbai is India's most populous city and its financial capital, home to the Bollywood film industry and one of the busiest ports in the country.
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Originally a group of seven islands inhabited by fishing communities, Mumbai was ceded to Britain in 1661 as part of a royal dowry and gradually reclaimed and joined into a single landmass over subsequent centuries.
The city grew into a major trading port under British colonial rule and became India's principal commercial and financial center, home to the Bombay Stock Exchange, one of Asia's oldest stock exchanges.
Mumbai is also the heart of the Hindi-language film industry, known as Bollywood, one of the largest film industries in the world by number of films produced annually.