'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1888-89'.

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.

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

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