A bread seller ferrying his goods on a bicycle in front of D’Silva House, 24 Matharpacady, the house of Mr Trevor D’Silva, and his sister Joan Saint-Prix, grandnephew and grandniece to Joseph ‘Kaka’ Baptista (1864-1930), Indian freedom fighter and a prominent member of the East Indian community. Kaka Baptista was born in Matharpacady in 1864 in his ancestral house which has now been demolished and replaced by a high-rise building. Kaka Baptista was a barrister at the Bombay High Court and was closely associated with Bal Gangadhar Tilak. In 1925, he was elected as the mayor of the Bombay Municipal Corporation.

Creator

• Mumbai Archive Project Team

Contributors

• Ankita Jain
• Ayan Ghosh

Publisher

• Jio Institute

Keyword

• East Indian Community
• Matharpacady
• Mazagaon
• Mumbai Archive Project
• Mumbai

Location

• Mazagaon

Resource type

• Image

Rights statement

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