IOR/V/10/294

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 1882-83. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1884.

The report begins with ‘PART I. SUMMARY.’ (ff 7-23), and ‘PART II.’ (ff 24-178) is then divided into the following chapters, most of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘CHAPTER I. PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY.’ (ff 28-91), consisting of: Physical Features of the Country, Area, Climate, and Chief Staples; Historical Summary; Form of Administration; Character of Land Tenures; system of Survey and Settlement; Civil Divisions of British Territory; Details of the Last Census; Changes in the Administration; Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs
• ‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.’ (ff 92-95), consisting of: Surveys; Settlements; Waste Lands; Government Estates; Wards’ Estates and other Estates under Government management
• ‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION.’ (ff 96-122), consisting of: Legislating Authority; Course of Legislation; Police; Criminal Justice; Prisons; Civil Justice; Registration; Municipal Administration; Military; Marine
• ‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 123-149), consisting of: Agriculture; Weather and Crops; Horticulture; Forests; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures; Trade; Public Works; Irrigation
• ‘CHAPTER V. REVENUE AND FINANCE.’ (ff 150-158), consisting of: Civil Transactions; Mint; Currency; Land Revenue; Canal Revenue; Customs; Opium; Salt; Excise; Stamps; License Tax; Local Funds; Municipal Revenues
• ‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL SERVICES.’ (ff 159-162r), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration; Medical Relief; ‘Lunatic Asylums’ [psychiatric hospitals]; Sanitation; Vaccination
• ‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 162v-172), consisting of: General system of Public Instruction; Education; Literature and the Press; Literary Societies; Arts and Sciences
• ‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHÆOLOGY.’ (f 173)
• ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 174-178), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.

The report includes the following maps, showing hydrology, topography, settlements, roads, railways and administrative boundaries:

• ‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY Part I. Gujárat and the Tápti Valley’ (ff 25 and 104)
• ‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY Part II. The Deccan, Konkan and Karnátic [Carnatic]’ (ff 26 and 105)
• ‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY Part III. Sind and Cutch [Kachchh]’ (ff 27 and 106)
• ‘S. M. RAILWAY’ (f 145)
• ‘WESTERN DECCAN RAILWAY.’ (f 146v)

‘PART III. STATISTICAL RETURNS.’ (ff 179-262) contains tables of information under the following chapters and sub-headings:

• ‘CHAPTER I. STATISTICS OF PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY.’ (ff 181-188r), consisting of: A. – Physical Geography; B. – Political Relations; C. – Civil Divisions of British Territory; D. – Population of British Territory
• ‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.’ (f 188v)
• ‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION.’ (ff 189-205), consisting of: A. – Legislative; B. – Police; C. – Judicial Statements (Criminal); D. – Prisons; E. – Judicial Statements (Civil) ; F. – Registration; G. – Military
• ‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 206-234r), consisting of: A. – Agriculture; B. – Weather and Crops; C. – Manufactures; D. – Trade; E. – Postal; F. – Public Works Department
• ‘CHAPTER V. REVENUE AND FINANCE.’ (ff 234v-247r), consisting of: A. – Imperial Revenue and Finance; B. – Revenue Other Than Imperial
• ‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISTICS.’ (ff 247v-255r), consisting of: A. – Births and Deaths; B. – Medical Services. Civil Hospitals and Dispensaries; C. – ‘Lunatic Asylums’ [psychiatric hospitals]; D. – Vaccination
• ‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 255v-261), consisting of: A. – Education; B. – Literature and the Press
• ‘CHAPTER IX [VIII]. MISCELLANEOUS.’ (f 262), consisting of: A. – Ecclesiastical.

A table of contents listing the parts, chapters and sub-headings of the report is on folios 4-6. 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.