Matharpacady-08.jpg

Description:

A bread seller ferrying his goods on a bicycle in front of D’Silva House, 24 Matharpacady, the house of Mr Trevor D’Silva, and his sister Joan Saint-Prix, grandnephew and grandniece to Joseph ‘Kaka’ Baptista (1864-1930), Indian freedom fighter and a prominent member of the East Indian community. Kaka Baptista was born in Matharpacady in 1864 in his ancestral house which has now been demolished and replaced by a high-rise building. Kaka Baptista was a barrister at the Bombay High Court and was closely associated with Bal Gangadhar Tilak. In 1925, he was elected as the mayor of the Bombay Municipal Corporation.

Location:

Mazagaon

Date_accepted:

2024-02-20T12:51:03Z

Modified:

2024-02-21T12:45:35Z

Type:

Image

Creator:

Mumbai Archive Project Team

Contributor:

Ankita Jain and Ayan Ghosh

Publisher:

Jio Institute

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

References:

East Indian Community, Matharpacady, Mazagaon, Mumbai Archive Project, and Mumbai

Thumbnail:

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