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For decades the city of Mumbai operated by two or more different clocks. The Long History of Bombay Time and Resistance to Colonial Rule Copy Link A clock shop in Chor Bazaar in Mumbai. galit seligmann/Alamy In This Story In 1878, Bombay University completed construction on a dazzling addition to the colonial city’s skyline: a 280-foot clock tower. Built in the Venetian Gothic style, the Big Ben–inspired structure was the tallest at the time in the city that would come to be known as Mumbai, with clock faces in each direction. It was right in the heart of the developing town, bursting from the surrounding trees on campus, with the sea not far away. There was just one prickly issue: No one could agree on what time it should keep.

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