Flora Fountain was renamed Hidatsa Chowk, or "crossroads of martyrs", in memory of Samyukta Maharashtra Movement. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 Bombay transformed into one of the largest seaports in the Arabian Sea. Over the past thirty coming years, the city has turned into a major urban centre, boosted by improved infrastructure and the construction of a large number of institutions in the city. population of the city has reached one million by 1906, making it the second largest in India after Calcutta. capital Because of the Presidency of Bombay, it was an important point for the movement for India's independence, with the Quit India Movement called by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942, is heading his event. after India's independence in 1947, it became the state capital of Bombay. In the 1950's the city expanded to its current boundaries by incorporating parts of Salsette ' island, which is north.

After 1955, when the state of Bombay was re-organized along linguistic lines in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, there is a demand that the city be established as an autonomous city-state. However, the movement opposed Samyukta Maharashtra, Mumbai, and insisted that should be declared the capital of Maharashtra. After the success of protest in which 105 people were killed by bullets fired by police, Maharashtra state was formed with Mumbai as its capital, on May 1, 1960.

Since the 1970's, Mumbai experienced a population explosion that has made the 5th most populous city in the world and led to a construction boom. The late 1970 experienced a construction boom and a large influx of migrants, who saw doubling Kolkata Mumbai, India's most populous city. This influx has caused unrest in local Maharashtrians. Shivsena political outfit was formed by Balasaheb Thackeray to secure the interests of the sons of the soil. The city is secular fabric torn by riots in 1992-93, after the large-scale sectarian violence has caused the loss of lives and property. A few months later, on March 12, a series of coordinated bomb attacks on several monuments in the city of Mumbai underworld killed about three hundred people. In 1995, the city was renamed Mumbai by the Shiv Sena government of Maharashtra, in keeping with their policy of renaming historic colonial institutions after local appellations. There were also bomb explosions in public transport buses in the past two years. In 2006, Mumbai was also the site of a major terrorist attack in which more than two hundred people were killed when several bombs exploded almost simultaneously on the railways suburban Mumbai.