History of Mumbai wiki page has detailed information on Mumbai history going back to Mauryan rule from 3rd century BCE

In a previous post around a week back, I had written that in the near future, I will be working on and putting up a post giving some info. (chronological list if possible) about (kingdom/empire) rulers of Mumbai and surrounding areas from 250 BCE based on Wikipedia.

As I started digging up info. on this matter, I found that the wiki page, History of Mumbai, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mumbai , was very informative. In particular, sections like "Age of Dynastical Empires", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mumbai#Age_of_Dynastical_Empires gave the dynasties/empires who ruled Mumbai in chronological order (though not as a list).

I did find some discrepancies though, between this section and other wikipedia sources, on some details. But they are not so major and perhaps I can put up a small post sharing these discrepancies that I found.

So what I wanted to do was already available in some form, in the above wiki page. Therefore I have dropped the plan of writing my own post on list of kingdom/empire level rulers of Mumbai from 250 BCE.

An interesting aspect of history of Mumbai over centuries is that prior to 1780, Salsette island (north of and including Bandra, Kurla and Ghatkopar) was separated from the southen part of Mumbai which was a set of 7 islands, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Islands_of_Bombay . The History of Mumbai wiki page and the above wiki page together tell us that from 1780s to 1840s, under British rule these seven islands were joined, some areas were reclaimed from creek(s) and flooding at high tide was prevented in some low-lying areas, making these seven islands and areas between them into one land mass. This Mumbai land mass was also connected to Salsette island (e.g. Mahim causeway connecting Mahim to Bandra, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahim_Causeway ).

Salsette island part of what is known as Greater Mumbai now, and some areas near it (like ancient Sopara port near Nala Sopara, and Kalyan) seem to have been more prominent in history of Mumbai and nearby areas till 1700s. I mean, ancient Sopara port and Kalyan town were well known in Roman times two thousand years ago as they were on one of the main Indo-Roman trade routes then. In contrast, the seven islands of Mumbai don't seem to have been that well known two thousand years ago.

The wiki page of Salsette island, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsette_Island , has two interesting maps telling us which part of Greater Mumbai falls within it:

*) The metropolis of Mumbai and the city of Thane lie on Salsette Island.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mumbaicitydistricts.png 

*) 1893 map showing the island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IslandsofBombay1893.jpg