'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1881-82’
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- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
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- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1881-82’
- Creator:
- Author: Government of Bombay
- Date:
- 1882/1882
- 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 1881-82. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1882.The report is divided into three parts. Part I contains a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 9-32). Part II (ff 33-186) comprises chapters I-IX. Part III comprises ‘Statistical Returns’ pertaining to chapters I-VII and IX (ff 187-344). PART II comprises the following:‘CHAPTER I. POLITICAL’ (ff 34-68), consisting of: Gujarát States; Southern Gujarát; Marátha States; Sátára Jágirs [Satara Jagir States]; Southern Marátha States; Sind [Sindh] State; Aden‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND. Surveys (ff 69-76), consisting of:; Topographical Survey; Revenue Survey; Wards’ Estates; Incumbered Estates; Ahmedbad [Ahmedabad] Tálukdárs‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION. Registration’ (ff 77-109), consisting of: Course of Legislation; Police; Criminal Justice; Prisons; Civil Justice; The Dekkhan [Deccan] Agriculturist’s Relief Act; Bombay Court of Small Causes; Registration; Municipal Administration; Military; Marine; Bombay Port Trust‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 109-141), consisting of: Agriculture; Weather and Crops; Horticulture; Forests; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures; Trade; Public Works; Irrigation.‘CHAPTER V. REVENUE AND FINANCE’ (ff 141-153), consisting of: Civil Imperial Transactions; Debt and Remittances; Mint; Currency; Land Revenue; Canal Revenue; Sources of Imperial Revenue other than Land; Revenue and Finance other than Imperial‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISITICS AND MEDICAL SERVICES’ (ff 153-167), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Death-rate according to Districts; Cholera; Small-pox; Fever; Bowel Complaints; Injuries; Emigration; Medical Relief; Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; Sanitation; Vaccination‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 167-184), consisting of: Education; Literature and the Press; Arts and Sciences‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 184)‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 185-186), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-8. 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 347; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.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
Aden - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001c8_ar
81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001c8_en
IOR/V/10/293
IOR/V/10/293