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Lalbaug or (
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: Lālbāg) is a neighbourhood in
South Bombay South Mumbai, colloquially SoBo from South Bombay in Anglo-Indian English, administratively the Mumbai City District, is the city centre and the southernmost precinct of Greater Bombay. It extends from Colaba to Mahim and Sion neighbour ...
in
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, the capital of
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an Indian state. It was once part of the neighbourhood called
Girangaon Girangaon (literally "mill village") was a name of an area now part of central Mumbai, India, which at one time had almost 130 textile mills, with the majority being cotton mills. The mills of Girangaon contributed significantly to the prosperi ...
- Mumbai's mill district that is now undergoing
gentrification Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more Wealth, affluent residents and businesses. It is a common and controversial topic in urban politics and urban planning, planning. Gentrification ...
due to the shifting of textiles mills to Gujarat.It is Well Connected Via railways which include Curry Road station of Central Railway,
Lower Parel Lower Parel (Pronunciation: əɾəɭ əɾeːl station code: PL) railway station is a railway station on the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, India. The next station south is Mahalaxmi railway station; the next station north is ...
station Of Western Railway & New
Lower Parel Lower Parel (Pronunciation: əɾəɭ əɾeːl station code: PL) railway station is a railway station on the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, India. The next station south is Mahalaxmi railway station; the next station north is ...
Monorail station.


See also

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Lalbaugcha Raja Lalbaugcha Raja (English: The King of Lalbaug) is the ''sarvajanik'' (public) Ganesha idol kept at Lalbaug, a locality in Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra, during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. The idol gives ''darsan'' to the devotees ...
(prominent idol during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival)


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