BOMBAY- Political capital of Maharashtra, and commercial capital of India, Bombay is many cities in one. As the world's largest textiles market, a major industrial centre and the country busiest port handling over 40 percent of India maritime trade. Bombay has no recorded ancient past. From time to time there were only scatter settlements on the island till the Portuguese presented Bombay to the British as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, bride of Charles II, in 1661. Over the next 150 years, the seven original islands were gradually joined together. The city received a tremendous impetus with the commissioning of India's first railway in 1854.