'GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1874-75'
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- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1874-75'
- Creator:
- Author: Government of Bombay
- Date:
- 1875/1876
- Description:
- Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1874-75.The report is divided into the following chapters, some of which are further divided into sub-sections:‘CHAPTER I. POLITICAL’ (ff 40-56), consisting of: Changes in the Administration; Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 57-67), consisting of: Surveys; Settlements; Waste Lands; Government Estates; Wards’ Estates‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 67-96), consisting of: Course of Legislature; Police; Criminal Justice; Prisons; Civil Justice; Registration; Municipal Administration; Military; Marine‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 97-130), consisting of: Agriculture; Weather and Crops; Horticulture; Forests; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures; Trade (External and Internal); Public Works (including Military and Civil Buildings, Roads, Railways, Canals, Telegraph, and Post Offices); Irrigation‘CHAPTER V. REVENUE AND FINANCE’ (ff 131-156), consisting of: Imperial Revenue and Finance (including Land Revenue and Canal Revenue); Sources of Imperial Revenue other than the Land (including Customs, Opium, Salt, Excise, and Stamps); Revenue and Finance other than Imperial‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL SERVICES’ (ff 157-169), consisting of: The Results of the Census; Births and Deaths; Emigration; Medical Relief; Sanitation; Vaccination‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 170-186), consisting of: Education; Literature and the Press; Arts and Sciences‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (ff 187-193), consisting of: The Archaeological Survey‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 194-195), consisting of: Ecclesiastical; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.An Appendix is at the rear of the volume (folios 196-279). This comprises tables of statistics relative to chapters III-VII.A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-7. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 282; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: An additional printed pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 8-279.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Annual reports
Colonial administration - Geographic region:
- Bombay, Presidency of
Sind
India - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001c1_ar
81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001c1_en
IOR/V/10/286
IOR/V/10/286