‘BOMBAY – 1934-5: A Review of the Administration of the Presidency’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘BOMBAY – 1934-5: A Review of the Administration of the Presidency’
- Creator:
- Author: Government of Bombay
- Date:
- 1936/1936
- Description:
- Abstract: Annual administration report of the BombayPresidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1934-35. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1936.The report begins with ‘PART I GENERAL SUMMARY’ (ff 6-16), and ‘PART II’ is then divided into the following chapters, most of which are further divided into sub-headings:‘CHAPTER I ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 17-18), consisting of: Land Records; Gujarat Talukdars Act; Sind [Sindh] Incumbered Estates Act; The Court of Wards Act; Department of Land Records‘CHAPTER II LAW AND JUSTICE’ (ff 19-25), consisting of: Legislative Council; Course of Legislation; Administration of Justice; Bombay Presidency Proper; Sind; Registration; Joint Stock Companies‘CHAPTER III POLICE AND CRIME’ (ff 26-34), consisting of: Mofussil Police; Sind Police; Bombay City Police; Village Police; Government Male and Female Workhouses; Jails; Criminal Tribes‘CHAPTER IV AGRICULTURE, WEATHER AND CROPS’ (ff 34-53), consisting of: Bombay Presidency; Nature of the Crops; Sind; Department of Agriculture; Advances to Cultivators; Note on the Weather; Prices in the Bombay Presidency During 1934-35; Mofussil Labour and Wages; Forests; Co-operative Movement; Horticulture‘CHAPTER V TRADE AND COMMERCE’ (ff 54-72), consisting of: Development of Industries; Commissioner of Labour; The Factories Act; The Workmen’s Compensation Act; Sea-borne Trade; Foreign Trade; Foreign Merchandise; Indian Produce and Manufactures; Trade According to Countries; Subordinate Ports of the Bombay Presidency; Maritime Trade; Traffic by Air‘CHAPTER VI PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 73-76), consisting of: Irrigation; Sind; Deccan and Gujarat; Railways‘CHAPTER VII VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF’ (ff 76-81), consisting of: Sanitation; Vaccination; Hospitals and Dispensaries; Veterinary; Chemical Analyser; Mental Hospitals; Acworth Leper Asylum [hospital for persons affected by leprosy or Hansen's Disease], Matunga; Kondhwa Leper Asylum, Poona [Pune]; British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (Indian Council), Bombay Presidency Branch; Emigration and Immigration‘CHAPTER VIII LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT’ (ff 82-86), consisting of: Municipalities; Bombay Municipality; Karachi Municipality; Local Board Administration; Bombay Port Trust; Karachi Port Trust‘CHAPTER IX COLLECTION OF REVENUE AND FINANCIAL REVIEW’ (ff 87-96), consisting of: Accounts for 1934-35; Land Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Excise‘CHAPTER X INSTRUCTION’ (ff 96-99), consisting of: Education; Yeravda [Yerawada] Reformatory School; Books and Publications; Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay; Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay; Victoria Museum, Karachi‘CHAPTER XI MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 100-104), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; The Church of India; Stationery; Bombay Development Schemes.A table of contents listing the parts,chapters and sub-headings of the report is on folios 4-5. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the 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.The volume includes appendices (ff 105-107) and a subject index (ff 108-110) with reference to the original pagination.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 111; 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 file 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_100000000812.0x0001e2_ar
81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001e2_en
IOR/V/10/319
IOR/V/10/319