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IOR/V/10/319
- Record Id:
- 040-000122000
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000121669
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001e2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143603631.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/V/10/319
- Title:
- ‘BOMBAY – 1934-5: A Review of the Administration of the Presidency’
- Scope & Content:
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Annual administration report of the BombayPresidency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments ineach department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1934-35.The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in1936.
Thereport begins with ‘PART I GENERAL SUMMARY’ (ff 6-16), and ‘PART II’ is thendivided into the following chapters, most of which are further divided intosub-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 ofinstances there are discrepancies in the phrasing or inclusion of sub-headingsbetween the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases thesub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.
Thevolume includes appendices (ff 105-107) and a subject index (ff 108-110) withreference to the original pagination.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000117414
036-000121669
037-000121958
040-000122000 - Is part of:
- IOR/V : Official Publications
IOR/V/10 : Administration Reports
IOR/V/10/278-328 : Bombay
IOR/V/10/319 : ‘BOMBAY – 1934-5: A Review of the Administration of the Presidency’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000117414[0010]/036-000121669[0008]/037-000121958[0042]/040-000122000
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/V
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (109 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001e2
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1936
- End Date:
- 1936
- Date Range:
- 1936
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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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.
- Arrangement:
- The report contains a table of contents listing headings and sub-headings and a subject index with reference to the original pagination.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)