Mumbai has long history of reclaiming land; initially it was done by British to connect seven islands but after independence process got hastened by both legal state and illegal not state actors. Currently in some areas of Mumbai like uptown elite Juhu area rate for land has reached to INR 1 lakh/sq ft. Benefits of this kind of urban development has not gone to its original inhabitants who have survived on the land and waters for their livelihood for generations. Kolis, Kunbis, east Indians are known to city as its earlier settlers. Fishing villages engulfed by the urbanised Mumbai city are their ancestral places of living and sources of livelihood.
