Bombay Central station

Bombay Central station is more than a transit point in the book; it is a symbolic gateway into the city's underworld, a place where arrivals and departures mark the beginning and end of criminal careers. The station is the threshold across which several of the book's central figures step into their new lives in Mumbai, and it is the anchor for a web of locations—the adjacent Bada Qabrastan cemetery, the contested Belassis Road property, and the broader network of railway lines that connect the city to its colonial past and its illicit economies. Its recurring presence in the narratives of Gangubai Kathiawadi, Haji Mastan, and others makes it a fixed point in the shifting geography of the Mumbai underworld.