Khar, Mumbai

Coordinates: 19°04′N 72°50′E / 19.067°N 72.833°E / 19.067; 72.833
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Khar
suburb
UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
400052
Area code022
Civic agencyBMC
Location of Khar-Santa Cruz in Mumbai.

Khar (Marathi pronunciation:

Khar Road railway station of the Mumbai Suburban Railway
network. It is an area within convenient distances of several schools, restaurants, parks, promenades and shopping centres. Khar bears the Mumbai Postal Index Number (Pin Code) 400052.

Khar, which is derived from the word Khāra (meaning 'salty' in the local language Marathi) has acquired this name in reference to the salt pans that were used to farm salt by locals near the Khar Danda sea shore a couple of centuries ago. Here, one also finds the historic fishing village of "Khar Danda", which is one of the villages that made up the original Bandra area and is also one of the oldest settlements of Mumbai.[1]

History

Khar Road
station

Most of the historic Khar area of Bandra was a marshland of salty sea water.[citation needed] Alongside fishing, salt production was one of the vocations that sustained the earliest dwellers of Khar Danda.

Pathare Prabhus were one of the earliest inhabitants of Khar, from almost a century and half ago. In the early 1900s, the Pathare Prabhu community lived in South Mumbai and used their quaint bungalows in Khar as weekend dwellings. Khar Danda was one of the original villages of the erstwhile larger Bandra. Back then, the local Bandra railway station was felt distant to alight from trains and hire 'tangas' (horse carriages) to get to these bungalows in the Khar part of Bandra. Keeping these factors in mind, as well as the growing number of homes in this part, a second railway station named 'Khar Road' was introduced in north Bandra on 1 July 1924. This development is the primary reason for Khar to start being spoken of as a suburb by itself.[2]
The Pathare Prabhu community still has land ownership over a large area of Bandra/Khar.

Schools and colleges

Following are the educational institutions located at Khar:

Religious places

  • Shankar Mandir
  • Maruai Devi Mandir
  • Shree Siddhivinayak Devastan
  • Digamber Jain Temple
  • Ahimsa Bhawan Jain Sthanak on 14A Road
  • Jain Temple at 5th Road
  • St. Vincent De Paul Church, Khar
  • Ghanteshwar Temple Mumbai, Khar west
  • Gayatri Mandir 12th Road Khar west
  • Ram Mandir 12th Road Khar west
  • Rama Krishna Mission 12th Road Khar west
  • Guru Gangeshwar Dham 6th Road Khar west
  • Khatwari Darbar Linking Road Khar west
  • Shri Guru Singh Sabha Gurudwara Station Road Khar west
  • Khar Markaz Masjid Old Khar Khar west
  • Shri Aniruddha Gurukshetram, Old Khar

Medical facilities

Notable Residents

Asha Bhosle Indian Playback Singer

Anu Malik Indian Music Director

Gulzar Indian Lyricist

S.D.Burman
Indian Musician

Suman Kalyanpur Indian playback singer

R.D.Burman
Indian Music Director

Tiger Shroff Indian Actor

See also

References

  1. ^ "Khar Danda | KharWest.com - Khar West Local News". Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Mumbai's Khar Station Turns 90". ndtv.com. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Gurunanak Mission High School, Mumbai - Admissions, Address, Reviews and Fees 2022". iCBSE.