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Charni Road

Charni Road
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Sarvagya@sarvagyasinghs ·

A Girgaon gateway station whose surrounds hold old wadis, sweet shops and the walk down to Girgaon Chowpatty.

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    Charni Road (Marathi pronunciation: [t͡ʃəɾniː ɾoːɖ]) is a neighbourhood in South Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is served by Charni Road railway station. History It is believed that when the British Government raised a grazing tax on people bringing their cattle to graze on the grass at the Azad Maidan, Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy purchased the grasslands near Thakurdwar out of his funds and opened those grounds to the locals to graze their cattle for free. As the Marathi word for grazing is "charne", the area came to be known as Charni ... and thence, the road beside it, as the Charni Road. According to another source, the word is a corruption of "Chendni", a locality in the Thane-Koliwada area. Many … Wikipedia