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IOR/V/10/282/1

Record Id:
041-003954598
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
036-000121669
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100131013892.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100136161141.0x000002
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/V/10/282/1
Title:
‘GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1869-70’
Scope & Content:

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 1869-70.

The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

  • ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 6-51), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice – Regulation Districts; Agent for Sirdars; Court of Small Causes, Bombay; Mofussil Courts of Small Causes; Criminal Justice – Regulation Districts; Police – Town and Island of Bombay; Regulation Districts; Jails; House of Correction, Bombay; Sind [Sindh]; Aden
  • ‘REVENUE’ (ff 52-60), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Customs, Salt and Opium
  • ‘FINANCIAL’ (ff 61-68), consisting of: Finance and Mint; Paper Currency
  • ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 69-89), consisting of: Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [Kachchh]; Baroda [Vadodara]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha]; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Pahlunpoor [Palanpur]; Khandeish [Khandesh]; Kolhapoor [Kolhapur]; Southern Mahratta [Maratha] Country; Akulkote [Akkalkot?]; Sawunt Warree [Savantvadi or Sawantwadi]; Junjeera [Janjira?]; ‘FOREIGN RELATIONS’ - Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Muscat; Persian Gulf; Bahrein [Bahrain]
  • ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 90-123), consisting of: Military – Fortifications, Cantonments; Accommodation for Troops; Ordnance; Commissariat; Staff; Naval; Civil Buildings – Revenue; Post Office; Telegraph; General; Ecclesiastical; Educational; Judicial; Agricultural; Communications – Roads, Bridges; River Improvements; Accommodation for Travellers; Miscellaneous Public Improvements – Municipal, Harbour Improvements, Lighthouses; Statement of Imperial Expenditure incurred in Public Works
  • ‘PUBLIC WORKS - RAILWAY’ (ff 124-134), consisting of: Great Indian Peninsula Railway; Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla
  • ‘MILITARY’ (ff 135-138)
  • ‘ECCLESIASTICAL’ (f 139)
  • ‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH’ (ff 140-154), consisting of: Electrician’s Report; Traffic Manager’s Report. Appendices to this section are included on folios 148v-154
  • ‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 155-170)
  • ‘MEDICAL’(ff 171-172)
  • ‘VACCINATION’ (f 173)
  • ‘SURVEYS’ (ff 174-176), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical Survey
  • ‘REGISTRATION’ (ff 177-179), including: Joint Stock Companies
  • ‘FORESTS’ (ff 180-186)
  • ‘COTTON’ (ff 187-194). Appendices to this section are included on folios 192-94
  • ‘MILLS’ (ff 195-96)
  • ‘MUNICIPAL’ (ff 197-256), consisting of: Bombay; Aden; Northern Division; Southern Division; Sind
  • ‘ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 257)
  • ‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 258-259), consisting of: Khandeish Model Farm; Emigration; Agricultural Improvements; Local Funds; Hill Station of Toongar; Pensioners’ Colony; Ahmedabad Horse Show.

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.

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
040-000121963
041-003954598
Is part of:
IOR/V : Official Publications
IOR/V/10 : Administration Reports
IOR/V/10/278-328 : Bombay
IOR/V/10/282 : ‘ADMINISTRATION REPORTS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF BOMBAY’

 

IOR/V/10/282/1 : ‘GENERAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1869-70’
Hierarchy:
032-000117414[0010]/036-000121669[0008]/037-000121958[0005]/040-000121963[0001]/041-003954598
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/V
Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:
1 item (257 folios)
Digitised Content:
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100136161141.0x000002
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Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1870
End Date:
1871
Date Range:
1870?
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Public Record(s)
Places:
Aden, Arabian Peninsula
Bahrein, Persian Gulf, Asia
Persian Gulf, Asia