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'GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1871-72'.

Catalogue reference: IOR/V/10/283

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IOR/V/10/283
Title
'GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1871-72'.
Date
1872?
Description

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 1871-72. The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:. 'PART I. – INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY' (ff 8-17); 'PART II. – PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, POLITICAL, AND FISCAL.' (ff 18-97), consisting of: SECTION I. – Physical Geography: 1. Area and Character of Surface 2. Climate; II. – Political Relations with Native States: 1. Native States 2. Foreign Relations; III. – Civil Divisions of British Territory; IV. – Population: 1. Census 2. Emigration; V. – Fiscal: 1. Land Revenue 2. Local Funds 3. Customs, Opium, and Salt 4. Alienated Revenue 5. Miscellaneous Revenue 6. Survey and Settlement; 'PART III. – PROTECTION.' (ff 98-151), consisting of: SECTION I. – Legislative; II. – Judicial: 1. Criminal Justice 2. Civil Justice; III. – Registration; IV. – Prisons; V. – (a). Police (b). Vagrants; VI. – Municipal Administration; VII. – (a). Military (b). Cantonments; VIII. – Marine; 'PART IV. – PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.' (ff 152-228), consisting of: SECTION I. – Finance: 1. Revenue and Expenditure – Budget Estimates 2. Mint 3. Paper Currency; II. – (a). Public Works (b). Irrigation; III. – Railway; IV. – Forests; V. – Agriculture and Stock: 1. General Summary of Agricultural Statistics 2. Cotton 3. Model Farms and Experimental Botany 4. (a). Agricultural Improvements (b). Horse and Cattle breeding 5. Fisheries; VI. – Prices of Produce and Labour; VII. – Mines and Quarries; VIII. – Manufactures; IX. – Trade: 1. Exports and Imports 2. Railway Traffic 3. Fairs 4. Joint Stock Companies 5. Chamber of Commerce; 'PART V. – INSTRUCTION.' (ff 229-243), consisting of: SECTION I. – Ecclesiastical; II. – Public Instruction; III. – Scientific and Literary: 1. Archaeology 2. Scientific Associations or Institutions 3. Museums 4. The Press; 'PART VI. – VITAL STATISTICS.' (ff 244-263), consisting of: SECTION I. – Public Health and Sanitation: 1. General Health 2. Births, Deaths, and Marriages; II. – Hospitals and Dispensaries; III. – Vaccination; 'PART VII. – THE POST.' (ff 264-266); A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 6-7. There is a discrepancy between how the heading of Part VII appears in the table of contents and the body of the report; the heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above. Folios 269-336 consist of appendices. There is an index to the appendices on folios 267-268, listing the appendices under the following headings and sub-headings:. 'I – STATISTICS OF PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND FISCAL GEOGRAPHY.' (ff 269v-279r), consisting of: I. Climate; II. Civil Divisions of British Territory; 'II. – STATISTICS OF PROTECTION.' (ff 279v-314r), consisting of: A. Civil Justice – Regulation Districts; B. – Criminal Justice – Regulation Districts, Town and Island of Bombay, Sind [Sindh], Aden; C. – Police – Regulation Districts, Sind; 'III. – STATISTICS OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.' (ff 314v-322r), consisting of: I. Public Works; II. – Stamps; III – Trade; 'IV – STATISTICS OF INSTRUCTION.' (ff 322v-323r); 'V. – STATISTICS OF HEALTH AND MORTALITY.' (ff 323v-326r), consisting of: Public Health; 'VI. – MISCELLANEOUS.' (ff 326v-336), consisting of: I. – Municipal Accounts; II. Local Fund Accounts; III. – Joint Stock Companies; IV. – Cotton; V. – Spinning and Weaving Mills

Arrangement

The report contains a table of contents listing headings and sub-headings.

Held by
British Library: Asian and African Studies
Former department reference
OC 1131
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Government of Bombay, 1662-1947
Physical description
1 volume (337 folios)
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Unrestricted

Physical condition
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 339; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/4e4ca694-c20b-4089-845d-9e55efc7e186/

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