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| name = Chinchpokli
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'''Chinchpokli''' ({{lang-mr|चिंचपोकळी}}) is a neighbourhood in [[South Mumbai]]. It is also the name of a [[Chinchpokli railway station|railway station]] on the Central line of the [[Mumbai suburban railway]]. Historical British era spellings include Chinchpugli and Chinchpooghly.<ref>https://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/images/gazetteer_V8_bc.jpg Map of Old mumbai, Published in Imperial gazetteer of India showing the name of the suburb as Chinchpugli </ref> The neighbourhood is named after the Marathi words for tamarind (''chinch'') and betel nut (''pofali'').<ref>{{cite book|author=Don Pendleton|title=Jungle Firestorm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fW0tAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA51|year=2014|publisher=Gold Eagle|isbn=978-0-373-61566-7|page=51}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Suketu|last=Mehta|title=Maximum city: Bombay lost and found|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yFAvxLLVPygC&pg=PA140|year=2006|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-400159-0|page=140}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Pinki|last=Virani|title=Once Was Bombay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cK_dCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT41|date=1 March 2001|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-93-5214-074-9|page=41}}</ref>
[[File:Chinchpokli stationboard.jpg|thumb|Chinchpokli stationboard]]
[[File:Chinchpokli Station Banner.jpg|thumb|Chinchpokli station Banner]]

==History==
The Chinchpokli Railway station was opened in 1877.<ref name="Wikimedia Commons 2018">{{cite web | title=Chinchpokli Station Banner| website=Wikimedia Commons | date=3 June 2018 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinchpokli_Station_Banner.jpg|language=en |access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref> There is an old Jewish Cemetery built by [[Elias David Sassoon]] in 1878 which lies parallel to the railway tracks.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Mumbai-Secrets-Jewish-film-stars-and-holocaust-victims-remembered-in-a-Chinchpokli-cemetery/articleshow/43675120.cms|title=Mumbai Secrets: Jewish film stars and holocaust victims remembered in a Chinchpokli cemetery|work=The Times of India|access-date=2018-06-03}}</ref> In 1896, during the [[Bombay plague epidemic]], the Chinchpokli Station was converted into medical transit place.<ref name="Wikimedia Commons 2018" /> The Road bridge over the railway track, known as Arthur Bridge was built in 1915.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Bridges-to-wealth-are-in-poor-health/articleshow/974130.cms|title='Bridges to wealth' are in poor health|work=The Times of India|access-date=2018-06-03}}</ref> [[Kasturba Hospital (Mumbai)|Kasturba Hospital]] run by Municipal Corporation is located in Chinchpokli West.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.prabodhan.org/mumbai/municipal-hospital_no.html|title=Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Hospitals|website=www.prabodhan.org|access-date=2018-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102214008/http://www.prabodhan.org/mumbai/municipal-hospital_no.html|archive-date=2 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/Kasturba%20Hospital/RTI%20Manuals/KasturbaHosp_RTI_E01.pdf</ref> Opposite to this hospital lies the Mumbai Central Prison, also referred to as Arthur Road Jail. It was built in 1926. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_time-to-free-mumbai-of-its-overcrowded-prison_1533473 |title=Time to free Mumbai of its overcrowded prison? |author=Mustafa Plumber & Manish K Pathak |date=19 April 2011 |publisher=DNA India |accessdate=25 November 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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