Dharavi
Dharavi is a locality in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Its
slum is second-largest slum in the continent of Asia after orangi town in
Pakistan and the third-largest slum in the world. With an area of just over 2.1
square kilometres (0.81 sq mi; 520 acres) and a population density of over
277,136/km2 (717,780/sq mi).
The Dharavi slum was founded in 1882 during the British
colonial era, and grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and
residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government, and from
the migration of poor rural Indians into urban Mumbai (then called Bombay). For
this reason, Dharavi is currently a highly multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and
diverse settlement.
Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous
household enterprises employ many of the slum residents– leather, textiles and
pottery products are among the goods made inside Dharavi. The total annual
turnover has been estimated at over US$1 billion.
Dharavi has suffered from many epidemics and other disasters,
including a widespread plague in 1896 which killed over half of the population
of Mumbai
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