'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1875-76'
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- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1875-76'
- Creator:
- Author: Government of Bombay
- Date:
- 1876/1877
- Description:
- Abstract: Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency, providing a summary record of the main events and development in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1875-76.The report is divided into the following chapters, some of which are further divided into sub-sections:‘CHAPTER I. POLITICAL’ (ff 63-88), consisting of: Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 89-98), consisting of: Surveys; Settlements; Waste Lands; Government Estates; Wards’ Estates‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 99-125), consisting of: Course of Legislature; Police; Criminal Justice; Prisons; Civil Justice; Registration; Municipal Administration; Military; Marine‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 125-162), 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 162-195), 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 195-204), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration; Medical Relief; Sanitation; Vaccination‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 204-222), consisting of: Education; Literature and the Press; Arts and Sciences‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (ff 222-223)‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 224-225), consisting of: Ecclesiastical; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.An Appendix is at the rear of the volume (folios 226-377). This comprises tables of statistics relative to all sections except for that on archaeology (Chapter VIII).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 foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 378; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume contains one foliation anomaly, f 338a.Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Annual reports
Colonial administration - Geographic region:
- Bombay, Presidency of
India
Sind - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001c2_ar
81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001c2_en
IOR/V/10/287
IOR/V/10/287