Answer:
(i) In the l7th century,
Bombay was a group of seven islands under the Portuguese.
(ii) These
islands were gifted to the British King, Charles II on getting married to a
Portuguese princess.
(iii)
The east India Company shifted its base from Surat to Bombay.
(iv)
Bombay was the major outlet for cotton textile from Gujarat.
(v)
Later, it functioned as a port through which large quantities of raw materials
like cotton and opium would pass.
(vi) Gradually,
it became an important administrative centre and a major industrial centre.
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