Answer:
(i) From its earliest
days, Bombay did not grow according to any plan and houses, especially in the
Fort area, which were scattered with gardens.
(ii) The Bombay
Fort area which formed the heart of the city was divided between native town,
where most of the Indians lived, and a European or 'white section'.
(iii)
With the rapid and unplanned expansion of the city, the housing and water
supply became acute by the mid 1850s.
(iv)
Like the European elite, the rich Parsis, Muslims and upper-caste traders and
industrialists of Bombay lived in spacious bungalows.
(v) In
contrast, 70 per cent of the working class lived in thickly-populated chawls.
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