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Horniman Circle , formerly Elphinstone Circle, is named after a pro-Independence newspaper editor. It was conceived in 1860 as a centrepiece of a newly planned Bombay by the then Municipal Commissioner, Charles Forjett, on the site of Bombay "Green". Forjett, a Eurasian, had something of a peculiar reputation; he was fond of disguising himself in "native" dress and prowling about certain districts of the city to listen out for seditious talk. In 1857, at the time of the First War of Independence (as it is now known by Indians; the British call it the Indian Mutiny), Forjett fired two suspected revolutionaries from a cannon on the Esplanade (roughly the site of the modern maidans). It is often said that the design of Horniman Circle was based on Tunbridge Wells or Leamington Spa in England, with elegant Neoclassical buildings centring on a garden with a fountain. East of the square, the impressive Doric Town Hall on SBS Marg houses the vast collection of the Asiatic Library .
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