Under governor Gerald Aungier (1669-1677) Bombay developed into a prosperous town and it soon supplanted Surat as the principal English settlement on the west coast, now also the capital of Bombay Presidency. In 1668 Charles II transferred the place to the East India Company for an annual rent of ten pounds. Way back the district was a Portuguese possession and anchorage from 1510 to 1661 when it was ceded to Charles II as part of the dowry of princess Catharine of Braganza. And in 1947 the British left their Indian Empire under the same arch with troops marching on to their ships for the last journey home, an emotional scene to be repeated in Hong Kong exactly fifty years later. For centuries the city was known as The Gateway of India, a name given to the seaside domed arch of yellow basalt built in 1924 to commemorate the arrival of the British king, George V in 1911. The Marathas and Gujaratis were the main groups of Metropolitan Bombay when Rajneesh arrived to the largest urban area in India and capital in the state of Maharashtra. So Bombay was where the people and the money were located, ready to move the work of Acharya Rajneesh further on and into a new phase with an expanding international focus. In Bombay he would furthermore be in close connection with the main office of Jeevan Jagruti Kendra (Life Awakening Movement). He may have alluded to the many well-off Jain businessmen in Bombay who had become his friends, but also the many Gujarati Hindu and Jain families he had acquainted would from now on have a much better opportunity to keep in touch with their master. Starts stirring your heart, changing your being.”īefore he left Jabalpur in June 1970 Rajneesh had already referred to Bombay as the place where he had his greatest following, and he had added too, that the most intelligent people in India of course are to be found in Bombay. Much which no language is capable of expressing.īut the very presence of a man who knows, Much transpires, much that cannot be said Listening to my words you stop thinking.Īnd in those moments when there is no thinking,
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