 The city was, first and foremost, built and developed by an Britishers Then Migrants From Gujarat Came For industrial and commercial bourgeoisie consisting of Parsis, Gujarati Hindus, Muslims communities earning their wealth on the extensive Arabian trade.The expanding labour force in Bombay was initially drawn from the coastal belt of Konkan, south of the city.Until the 1940s, Marathi speakers from these areas accounted for 68% of the city's population, and held mostly jobs.