‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1888-89’
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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 1888-89’
- Creator:
- Author: Government of Bombay
- Date:
- 1889/1889
- 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 1888-89. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1889.The report is divided into three parts. Part I comprises a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 6-23).Part II (ff 24-129) 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 130-254).PART II comprises the following:‘CHAPTER I. POLITICAL. TRIBUTARY STATES.’ (ff 28-43), consisting of: North Gujarát; South Gujarát; North Konkan; South Konkan; The Dekkan [Deccan]; Southern Marátha States; Sind [Sindh]; Aden‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.’ (ff 44-48), consisting of: Surveys; Settlements; Collection of Land Revenue; Waste Lands; Government Estates; Wards’ and other Estates under the management of Government.‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION.’ (ff 48-65), consisting of: Course of Legislation; Police; Chemical Analysis; Criminal Justice; Prisons; Civil Justice; Registration; Municipal Administration; Military; Marine.‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 66-100), consisting of: Agriculture; Weather and Crops; Horticulture; Forests; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures and Industries; Trade; Public Works; Telegraphs; Post Office; Irrigation.‘CHAPTER V. FINANCIAL REVIEW.’ (ff 101-14), consisting of: General Finance; Mint; Currency; Land Revenue; Canal Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Customs; Opium; Salt; Excise; Stamps; Income Tax; Local Funds; Municipal Revenues.‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL SERVICES.’ (ff 114-19), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration; Medical Relief; Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; Sanitation; Vaccination; Veterinary.‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 119-27), consisting of: Education; Literature and the Press; Arts and Sciences.‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHEAOLOGY.’ (f 128)‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 128-29), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; Stationary; General Miscellaneous.The maps at the start of Part II are as follows:‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY Part I. GUJÁRAT AND THE TÁPTI VALLEY’ (f 25)‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY Part II THE DECCAN, KONKAN AND KARNÁTIC [Carnatic]’ (f 26)‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY Part III SIND AND CUTCH [Kutch or Kachchh]’ (f 27).The maps in Chapter IV, sub-section Public Works, sub-sub-section Railways, are as follows:‘Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company.’ (f 91)‘B. B. & C. I. [Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara] and Central India] RAILWAY. (Including the Rajputana Malwa Railway) and LINES of Railways in Connection.’ (f 92)‘MAP of the SOUTHERN MAHRATTA RAILWAY, AND ADJACENT LINES’ (f 93)‘BHÁVNAGAR-GONDAL-JUNÁGAD [Junagadh]-PORBANDAR RAILWAY AND MORVI [or Morbi] STATE RAILWAY.’ (f 94).A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 4-5. 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 inside back cover with 257; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front cover.Pagination: the volume also contains multiple original pagination sequences.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Colonial administration
Annual reports - Geographic region:
- India
Sind
Bombay, Presidency of
Aden - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001cf_ar
81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001cf_en
IOR/V/10/300
IOR/V/10/300