Dongri Dongri Dongri is a port city in the Mira-Bhayandar municipality of Thane district, situated just north of Gorai, Mumbai. The word 'Dungaree' (worker's overalls worn in Britain) has its origin from Dongri due this genre of garment monolithically being manufactured from textile sectors within the confines of the city. The modern, colonial history of Dongri dates back to the late early modern era of the early 17th century, at which point merchant mariner and co-founder of the British East India company, George White, established an Anglo trading post and co-dependency in the classical port city of Dongri, as a Maratha
Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia in the world. The story is primarily about how a boy from Dongri became a don in Dubai, and captures his bravado, focus, ambition, and lust for power in a gripping narrative. The meticulously researched book provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the mafia's games of supremacy and internecine warfare. The narrative begins from the period of 1950s when the eras of smugglers like Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar flourished. Then it moves to telling stories of the menace of the Pathan gang, the short but deadly span of Manya Surve and the rise and fall of Maya Dolas