IOR/V/10/325

Annual administration report of the Bombay Province, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1940-41. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai] in 1942. The report is divided into three parts: Part I contains a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 6-15); Part II (ff 16-79) comprises chapters I-XI; the third part (ff 80-81) comprises Appendices in two sections.

PART II comprises the following:

• ‘CHAPTER I. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 16-17), consisting of: Land Records; Wards and other Estates. Gujarat Talukdars’ Act; Court of Wards Act
• ‘CHAPTER II. LAW AND JUSTICE’ (ff 18-23) consisting of: Administration of Justice; Civil and Criminal Justice; Registrations; Joint Stock Companies
• ‘CHAPTER III. POLICE AND CRIME’ (ff 24-30) consisting of: Police; Mofussil and Railway Police; Bombay City Police; Village Police; Motor Vehicles; Government Workhouses; Jails: Borstal School; Dharwar, and the Bombay Province Probation and After-care Association; Juvenile Branch Administration; Criminal Tribes
• ‘CHAPTER IV. AGRICULTURE, WEATHER AND CROPS’ (ff 30-48), consisting of: Agriculture and Crops; Department of Agriculture; Rural Development; Advances to Cultivators; Note on the Weather; Prices; Retail Prices; Wholesale Prices; Mofussil Labour and Wages; Forest; Co-operative Movement
• ‘CHAPTER V. TRADE AND COMMERCE’ (ff 48-53), consisting of: Industries; Commissioner of Labour; The Factories Act; The Workmen’s Compensation Act; Boiler Inspection Department; Sea-borne Trade
• ‘CHAPTER VI. PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 54-56), consisting of: Public Works Administration; Central Workshops Dapuri; Electricity; Communications; Scarcity Works; Water Supply and Drainage Schemes; Railways; Irrigation
• ‘CHAPTER VII. VITAL STATISITICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF’ (ff 57-61), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Pilgrim Centres; Vaccination; Hospitals and Dispensaries; Haffkine Institute; Veterinary; Chemical Analyser; Mental Hospital [psychiatric hospitals]; Acworth Leper [Hansen’s disease] Home, Matunga; Kondhwa Leper Hospital, Poona [Pune]; British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, Bombay Province Branch; Emigration and Immigration
• ‘CHAPTER VIII. LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT’ (ff 61-64), consisting of: Municipalities; Bombay City Municipality; Local Board Administration
• ‘CHAPTER IX. COLLECTION OF REVENUE AND FINANCIAL REVIEW’ (ff 64-72), consisting of: Accounts for 1939-40; Public Works Revenue; Land Revenue; Excise
• ‘CHAPTER X. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 73-76), consisting of: Education; Books and Publications; Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay Branch; Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay; Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay; Lord Reay Industrial Museum, Poona
• ‘CHAPTER XI. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 76-79), consisting of: Ecclesiastical; The Court of India; The Established Church of Scotland; Stationery and Printing; Government Central Press, Bombay; Yeravda Prison Press, Poona; Government Photozinco Press, Poona; General Miscellaneous; Industrial Housing Scheme; Residential Suburban Schemes; Town Planning and Valuations Department; Military; Archaeology; ‘Backward Classes’ [used to refer to Dalit people officially designated as Scheduled Castes, Adivasi peoples now officially designated as Scheduled Tribes, and other socially and economically disadvantaged groups].

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.