Khotachiwadi
Khotachiwadi is a heritage village in Girgaon, Mumbai, India. Houses generally conform to the old-Portuguese style architecture.
It was founded in the late 18th century by Khot, a Pathare prabhu, who sold plots of land to local East Indian families. There used to be 65 of these houses, now reduced to 28 as old buildings are being pulled down to make way for new skyscrapers.
Architecture
Houses are made of wood, with a large open front verandah, a back courtyard and an external staircase to access the top bedroom.
Residents
Most of the residents now descend from the original inhabitants of Mumbai. Recently Gujarathis, Marwadis have moved into the area. Majority are Maharashtrain Christians.
gollark: `stack install`?
gollark: ```Prelude Unsafe.Coerce System.IO.Unsafe> potatOS ()<interactive>: internal error: stg_ap_v_ret (GHC version 8.4.4 for x86_64_unknown_linux) Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug```
gollark: ```haskellimport Unsafe.Coerceimport System.IO.Unsafedata OS = CCIsBad String deriving Showdata The = The deriving Showdata Best = The OS deriving Showdata PotatOS = Is The Best OS deriving ShowpotatOS = unsafePerformIO . unsafeInterleaveIO . unsafeCoerce; potatOS :: () -> PotatOS```
gollark: What about `^`, `*`, `*`, unary `-`, `%` etc?
gollark: Ah, you want arrow operators.
References
- Aati kya Kotachiwadi?, Times News Network, pg 7, Times of India, 2005-05-27
- Minor Sights: Khotachiwadi Urban Village 2015-05-22
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