'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1884-85'
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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 1884-85'
- Creator:
- Author: Government of Bombay
- Date:
- 1884/1885
- 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 1884-85. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai] in 1885.The report is divided into three parts. Part I comprises a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 7-17). Part II (ff 18-140) comprises three maps of the Bombay Presidency followed by chapters I-IX. Part III comprises ‘Statistical Returns’ pertaining to chapters I-VII and IX (ff 141-237).PART II comprises the following:‘CHAPTER I. POLITICAL. TRIBUTARY STATES’ (ff 22-41), consisting of: Gujarát [Gujarat] States; Southern Gujarát; Marátha [Maratha] States; Sátára Jágirs [Satara Jagir States]; Southern Marátha States; Sind [Sindh] State (comprising Khairpur and Aden)‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 41-47), consisting of: Surveys; Settlements; Waste Lands; Government Estates; Wards’ Estates and other Estates under management of Government, Estates in charge of the Tálukdári Settlement Officer, Incumbered Estates, Sind‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 47-68), consisting of: Course of Legislation; Police; Criminal Justice; Prisons; Civil Justice; Registration; Municipal Administration; Military; Marine‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 68-104), consisting of: Agriculture; Horticulture; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures and Industries; Trade; Public Works (including six railway company route maps, on folios 90-95); Irrigation. Folios 73-74 comprise tables of graphs showing ‘Monthly abnormal variations of the meteorological elements in 1884-85’ and ‘Abnormal variations of barometric pressure’ covering 1881-85‘CHAPTER V. REVENUE AND FINANCE’ (ff 104-122), consisting of: General Finance; Mint; Currency; Land Revenue; Canal Revenue; Customs; Opium; Salt; Excise; Stamps; License Tax; Local Funds; Municipal Revenues‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISITICS AND MEDICAL SERVICES’ (ff 123-128), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration; Medical Relief; Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; Sanitation; Vaccination‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 128-136), consisting of: Education; Literature and the Press; Arts and Sciences‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 137)‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 138-140), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.The maps at the start of Part II are as follows:‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. Part I. Sind and Cutch [Kutch or Kachchh]’(f 19)‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. Part II. Gujárat [Gujarat] and the Tápti [Tapti] Valley’ (f 20)‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. Part III. The Deccan, Konkan and Karnatic [Carnatic]’ (f 21).The maps in Chapter IV, sub-section Public Works, sub-sub-section Railways, are as follows:‘BHÁVNAGAR [Bhavnagar] CONDAL RAILWAY’ (f 90)‘SOUTHERN MARATHA RAILWAY’ (f 91)‘RAJPUTANA-MALWA AND REWARI-FEROZEPORE [Firozpur] RAILWAYS (f 92)‘B. B. & C. I. (Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara] and Central India) RAILWAY’ (f 93)‘DHOND [Daund] AND MANMÁD [Manmad] RAILWAY’ (f 94)‘G. I. P. (Great Indian Peninsula) RAILWAY’ (f 95).A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-6. 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 inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 240; 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 multiple printed pagination sequences.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Annual reports
Colonial administration - Geographic region:
- Aden
Bombay, Presidency of
India
Sind - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001cb_ar
81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001cb_en
IOR/V/10/296
IOR/V/10/296