IOR/V/10/296

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 1884-85. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai] in 1885.

The report is divided into three parts. Part I comprises a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 7-17). Part II (ff 18-140) 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 141-237).

PART II comprises the following:

• ‘CHAPTER I. POLITICAL. TRIBUTARY STATES’ (ff 22-41), consisting of: Gujarát [Gujarat] States; Southern Gujarát; Marátha [Maratha] States; Sátára Jágirs [Satara Jagir States]; Southern Marátha States; Sind [Sindh] State (comprising Khairpur and Aden)
• ‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 41-47), consisting of: Surveys; Settlements; Waste Lands; Government Estates; Wards’ Estates and other Estates under management of Government, Estates in charge of the Tálukdári Settlement Officer, Incumbered Estates, Sind
• ‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 47-68), consisting of: Course of Legislation; Police; Criminal Justice; Prisons; Civil Justice; Registration; Municipal Administration; Military; Marine
• ‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 68-104), consisting of: Agriculture; Horticulture; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures and Industries; Trade; Public Works (including six railway company route maps, on folios 90-95); Irrigation. Folios 73-74 comprise tables of graphs showing ‘Monthly abnormal variations of the meteorological elements in 1884-85’ and ‘Abnormal variations of barometric pressure’ covering 1881-85
• ‘CHAPTER V. REVENUE AND FINANCE’ (ff 104-122), consisting of: General Finance; Mint; Currency; Land Revenue; Canal Revenue; Customs; Opium; Salt; Excise; Stamps; License Tax; Local Funds; Municipal Revenues
• ‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISITICS AND MEDICAL SERVICES’ (ff 123-128), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration; Medical Relief; Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; Sanitation; Vaccination
• ‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 128-136), consisting of: Education; Literature and the Press; Arts and Sciences
• ‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 137)
• ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 138-140), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.

The maps at the start of Part II are as follows:

• ‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. Part I. Sind and Cutch [Kutch or Kachchh]’(f 19)
• ‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. Part II. Gujárat [Gujarat] and the Tápti [Tapti] Valley’ (f 20)
• ‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. Part III. The Deccan, Konkan and Karnatic [Carnatic]’ (f 21).

The maps in Chapter IV, sub-section Public Works, sub-sub-section Railways, are as follows:

• ‘BHÁVNAGAR [Bhavnagar] CONDAL RAILWAY’ (f 90)
• ‘SOUTHERN MARATHA RAILWAY’ (f 91)
• ‘RAJPUTANA-MALWA AND REWARI-FEROZEPORE [Firozpur] RAILWAYS (f 92)
• ‘B. B. & C. I. (Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara] and Central India) RAILWAY’ (f 93)
• ‘DHOND [Daund] AND MANMÁD [Manmad] RAILWAY’ (f 94)
• ‘G. I. P. (Great Indian Peninsula) RAILWAY’ (f 95).

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-6. 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.