Worli Sea Face

This guide to Worli Sea Face in Mumbai traces how seven separate islands, handed to the English Crown in 1661 as part of a royal dowry, were gradually filled in and fused into today's peninsula, pushing the Koli fishing communities who had worked these waters since the 1400s into the middle of a growing city. It lingers on a fiberglass sculpture along the promenade, unveiled in 2020, showing a Koli fisherman seated in his boat, and on the women in Worli Koliwada who still process the morning catch as their families have for generations. Look for the ruins of the old British fort on the headland nearby.