Kandivli

Kandivali कांदिवली
suburb
Thakur Village in Kandivali (East)
Kandivali
Coordinates: 19°12′16″N 72°50′16″E / 19.204511°N 72.837639°E / 19.204511; 72.837639Coordinates: 19°12′16″N 72°50′16″E / 19.204511°N 72.837639°E / 19.204511; 72.837639
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District	Mumbai Suburban
Metro	Mumbai
Languages
• Official	Marathi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	400067, 400101
Vehicle registration	MH-47(since May 2015) MH-02 (before May 2015)
Lok Sabha constituency	Mumbai North
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Charkop Borivali (cover western parts of the suburb) Kandivali East Magathane (cover eastern parts of the suburb)

Kandivali(formerly Khandolee) is a suburb in the northern part of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is the 20th railway station from south to north within Mumbai.

Artifacts found near Kandivali indicate that the region was inhabited in the Stone Age.

The Kandivali railway station was built more than 100 years ago in 1907, then known as Khandolee. The station derived its name from the East Indian village of Condolim. Earth and stones from Paran, a hillock east of the Kandivali railway station were quarried to reclaim the Bombay Backbay. On this account a railway line was opened, a workshop erected and a number of dwelling houses were constructed for officers and workmen numbering hundreds. The area around Western Express Highway between Malad and Kandivali had numerous stone quarries and was once famous for Malad Stone. Many heritage buildings in Mumbai were constructed with Malad stone between 1860 and 1930, notable among them are David Sassoon library, Bombay House and the Western Railway building at Churchgate.

During the plagues of 1900s, the Fonsecas from Bandra migrated to Kandivali, they initially settled down to the east of Kandivali at Akurli and then moved to the west at Poisar. This is where the East Indians thrived and a few families still reside to this day.

Samata Nagar is one of the oldest colonies of Kandivali. Like all other Mumbai suburbs, Kandivali is split by a train station into Western and Eastern areas. Notable areas of Kandivali include Thakur Complex, Thakur Village, Lokhandwala Township, Samata Nagar and Damu Nagar on the eastern side and Dahanukar Wadi, Mohite Wadi, Tualskar Wadi, Irani Wadi, Mahavir Nagar, Charkop and Poisar on the western side.

The oldest locality in Kandivali is Kandivali village which had 5 families, mostly Pachkalshi (such as Patil and Mhatre) in the 1800s. Kandivali village is one of the Old East Indian villages of Mumbai. It originally consisted of the East Indian Catholic.