Historic evidence tells us that early resident of Mumbai caught his quota of fish and shared it with his fellow citizen who was a farmer even before Jesus Christ walked upon this earth. Historians however consider this past not so amusing and hence let it pass.
Common knowledge therefore is that it was once a congregation of seven tiny islands mostly lived in by fishermen and farmers. In the year 1400 it was conquered by the King of Thane ( a throne now unheard of ) soon to have passed in the hands of another ruler. The Mahim Fort, of which few traces are left now, was the ruling seat of these rulers. Considerations of these rulers like their countrymen were different so were their concepts of exploitation. Mumbai therefore continued to grow at snails pace the way any under developed island would grow.
Vaso-da-gama, the Portuguese traveller set his foot at Kalikat in 1453 in a bid to discover New Land. Portuguese rulers slowly explored India and came to acquire a foothold in Mumbai by 1600. Their feellow invaders, the British by that time had started settling in Calcutta and Surat. The way rulers married in those days. Prince Charles of Britain married Princess Chatherine of Portugal in 1661. Mumbai was given to Prince charles as a mariage gift and he became the new owner of Mumbai. Mumbai however coninued to exist the way it did. Fishermen caught their daily quota of fish and farmers tilled in their not so fertile land.
