Correct Option: C

Mumbai is the largest and most important port along the western coast of India. It was devel-oped during the colonial rule when the headquarters of the East India Company was shifted from Surat to Mumbai in 1672. Mumbai port has a vast hinterland extending over Maharashtra, northern Karnataka, northwest-ern Andhra Pradesh, eastern Gujarat and Rajasthan, western Madhya Pradesh and south-western Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.