Editing Parel

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{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
{{About|the neighbourhood in Mumbai|other uses|Parel (disambiguation)}}

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| native_name                     = Paraḷ
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| image_caption                   = A view of Lower Parel's skyline
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| subdivision_name1       = [[Maharashtra]]
| subdivision_type2       = [[Districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2       = [[Mumbai City district|Mumbai City]]
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| subdivision_name3       = [[Mumbai]]
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| population_demonym              = Parelkar, Paralkar
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| postal_code                     = 400012<ref name="pcode">{{cite web|url=https://indiapincodes.net/Maharashtra/Mumbai/Parel/|title=Pin code : Parel, Mumbai
|access-date=10 February 2021|publisher=indiapincodes.net}}</ref>
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| blank1_info_sec1                = [[Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation|BMC]]
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'''Parel''' ([[ISO 15919|ISO]]: '''Paraḷ''', pronunciation: [[Help:IPA/Marathi|[pəɾəɭ]]]) is a neighbourhood in the south of [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. <ref name="origins">{{cite book|last=D'Cunha|first=Jose Gerson|title=The Origins of Bombay|publisher=Asian Educational Services|location=Bombay|year=1900|edition=3|pages=265|chapter=IV The Portuguese Period|isbn=81-206-0815-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=miD5YO05jpUC&q=the+origins+of+bombay|access-date=2009-01-04}}</ref> Originally one of the [[Seven Islands of Bombay]], Parel became an industrial center after the unification of the islands of Bombay. Parel housed a large number of [[textile mill]]s, but has gradually evolved into a business district, as most mills have been replaced by commercial office spaces and [[Tower block|high-rise]] residential development.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kailash Babar |date=9 May 2012 |title=Mumbai's Lower Parel: One of the most coveted piece of real estate in the country's financial capital hard to sell |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/personal-finance-news/mumbais-lower-parel-one-of-the-most-coveted-piece-of-real-estate-in-the-countrys-financial-capital-hard-to-sell/articleshow/13066443.cms |access-date=10 December 2016 |work=[[The Economic Times]] |publisher=[[The Times Group]]}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Seven Islands of Bombay (mul).svg|thumb|left|150px| Former [[seven islands of Bombay]].]]

Originally, Parel was a separate island, one of the [[Seven Islands of Bombay]]. 

The [[Parel Relief]] or (Parel Shiva) is an important monolithic [[relief]] of the Hindu god [[Shiva]] in seven forms. It is dated back to the late [[Gupta period]], in the 5th or 6th century AD by the ASI. It was found in Parel when a road was being constructed in 1931, and moved to the nearby Baradevi Temple, where it remains in worship, in its own room.<ref>ASI; Michell, 355</ref> The name Parel has its roots from the ''Parali Vaijanath Mahadev'' temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical-articles/links/power-supply-mumbai-bombay-india/parel.shtml|title=Parel belonged to the 13th Century, from another shrine to shiva|access-date=2020-07-02|website=www.geni.org}}</ref> 

An inscription dated 26 January, 1187 (Paurnima of Magha, Saka 1108) is found there. It records a grant made by [[Shilahara]] king Aparaditya II out of the proceeds of an orchard in a village named Mahavali (close to [[Kurla]]) for a Vaidyanatha temple.<ref>Corpus Inscriptions Indicarum, Vol. 6, p. 161-162. https://archive.org/stream/corpusinscriptio014678mbp#page/n391/mode/2up</ref>

In 1771 [[William Hornby (governor)|William Hornby]], [[Governor of Bombay|the Governor of Bombay]], moved into the former friary, which became known as Government House, and a number of  mills were subsequently established nearby.<ref>{{cite web |title=Government House, Parell [Parel, Bombay]. |url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/g/019pho000000937u00022000.html |publisher=[[British Library]] |access-date=9 May 2019}}</ref> In 1883, the Governor's wife died of [[cholera]] in the house and two years later, the Governor's Mansion was moved to [[Malabar Hill|Malabar Point]]. During the [[pandemic|plague]] [[epidemic]]s of the 1890s, the old Government House was leased to the newly founded [[Haffkine Institute]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Waldemar Mordekhaï Haffkine (1860-1930). Biographie intellectuelle|last=Hanhart|first=Joël|publisher=Éditions Honoré Champion|year=2016|location=Paris}}</ref>

It was a district in [[Girangaon]], which was the focus of the [[Great Bombay textile strike]] of 1982.<ref>[http://www.indialabourarchives.org/publications/Hemant%20Babu.htm Death of an Industrial City: Testimonies of Life Around Bombay Textile Strike of 1982] Indian Labour Archives  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060506002529/http://www.indialabourarchives.org/publications/Hemant%20Babu.htm |date=6 May 2006 }}</ref>

==Politics==
Parel was a  [[Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha|Vidhan Sabha]] constituency of [[Maharashtra]]  from 1962<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_1962/StatRep_Maharastra_1962.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MAHARASHTRA|access-date=24 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417164907/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Maharastra_1962.pdf|archive-date=17 April 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> to 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2004/StatisticalReports_MH_2004.pdf|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2004 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MAHARASHTRA}}</ref> It was constituted into [[Shivadi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Shivadi]] constituency by the Delimitation of Parliament and Assembly Constituencies Order of 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/currentelections/consolidated_order%20_eci%20.pdf|title=DELIMITATION OF PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES ORDER, 2008|access-date=24 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003220916/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf|archive-date=3 October 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Gallery==

<gallery widths="120px" heights="120px">
File:The World Towers Mumbai.jpg| [[World One| Lodha World Towers]]
File:Lodha Trump Tower and Marquise.png| [[The Park (residential project)| Lodha the Park Towers]]
File:Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - panoramio.jpg| [[Motilal Oswal Financial Services| Motilal Oswal]] building
File:360 west towers,Lower parel,Mumbai.jpg| An aerial view of Lower Parel
File:One Avighna park.jpg| [[One Avighna Park]]
File:Phoenix mills.jpg| [[Phoenix Mills]] chimney
File:McDonald's in Worli, Mumbai, India.jpg| [[High Street Phoenix]]
File:Indiabulls Sky.jpg| [[Indiabulls| Indiabulls Sky Tower]] 
</gallery>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Michell, George (1990), ''The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India, Volume 1: Buddhist, Jain, Hindu'', 1990, Penguin Books, {{ISBN|0140081445}}
*''Star Track''; ''[[Times of India]]'' Mumbai; pg-2; 21 April 2006

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