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Joseph Baptista Gardens
The Joseph Baptista Gardens, locally known as the Mazagaon Gardens, is a park in Mazagaon, South Mumbai. It lies atop Bhandarwada hill, behind the Dockyard Road railway station, at an altitude of and offers a panoramic view of the Mumbai harbour and the southern business district of the city.
It was originally named after John Hay Grant, the Municipal Commissioner of Bombay (1877–1881), who built the public garden spread over above a water reservoir between 1880–1884. Shortly after India's independence in 1947, the gardens, was named after Joseph Baptista, an Indian freedom activist from Mazagaon.
==History==
After the British arrived in Bombay in the 1660s, they selected Bhandarwala Hill, a basalt rocky outcrop as a site for the Mazagon Fort, that was built in 1680. However, the fort was completely razed by Siddi ruler Yakut Khan after he withdrew his siege on the orders of the Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb.
In 1884, to address the shortage of potable water in the city, several hills were selected as storage tanks by the civic administration. Water from the Vihar Lake was pumped to the Bhandarwada Hill reservoir, that was then distributed to the city. Over it the John Hay Grant park was built. In 1925, the capacity was increased to .〔
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