Publisher's Synopsis
It is located in the area of the suburbs of Bombay called Vasai. It is one of the Islands that once made up what was then called the Bombay Group. Some of the others being Dharavi, Versova, Trombay, Mazagaon, Mahim, Worli, Colaba etc. The history of Chaul and Bassein is connected with the origin and growth of the area that now called Greater Bombay.