IOR/V/10/316/5

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 1920-21. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1922.

The report is divided into two parts. Part I comprises a report ‘GENERAL SUMMARY’ (ff 327-333).

PART II (ff 334-430) comprises the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘CHAPTER I. – PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL. TRIBUTARY STATES.’ (ff 334-344), consisting of: I. North Gujarat; II. South Gujarat; III. North Konkan; IV. South Konkan; V. The Deccan; VI. Kolhapur and Southern Maratha Country States; VII. Sind [Sindh]; VIII. Aden; IX. Condition of the People
• ‘CHAPTER II. – ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.’ (ff 345-350), consisting of: 1. Surveys; 2. Settlements; 3. Waste Lands; 4. Land Records; 5. Wards’ and other Estates; 6. Revenue and Rent-paying Classes
• ‘CHAPTER III. – LAW AND JUSTICE.’ (ff 351-356), consisting of: 1. Course of Legislation; 2. Criminal Justice; 3. (a). Civil Justice (b) Execution of Civil Court Decrees by the Revenue Department; 4. Registration
• ‘CHAPTER IV. – POLICE AND CRIME.’ (ff 356-359), consisting of: 1. Police; 2. Prisons – Civil and Criminal; 3. Criminal Tribes
• ‘CHAPTER V. – AGRICULTURE, WEATHER AND CROPS, ETC.’ (ff 359-371), consisting of: I. Agriculture; 2. Weather and Crops; 3. Co-operative Societies; 4. Horticulture; 5. Forests; 6. Mines and Quarries
• ‘CHAPTER VI. – TRADE AND COMMERCE.’ (ff 372-384), consisting of: 1. Power Industries and Handicrafts; 2. Trade; 3. Marine; 4. Labour Bureau
• ‘CHAPTER VII. – PUBLIC WORKS. (ff 385-408), consisting of: (a) Administration; (b) Roads and Buildings; (c) Irrigation; 1. Public Works; Railways; 3. Tramways
• ‘CHAPTER VIII. – VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF.’ (ff 408-412), consisting of: 1. Births and Deaths; 2. Emigration and Immigration; 3. Medical Relief; 4. Epidemic Diseases; 5. The Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory; 6. Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; 7. Acworth Leper [people affected by leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease] Asylum, Matunga; 8. Sanitation; 9. Vaccination; 10. Chemical Analysis; 11. Wild Animals and Venomous Snakes; 12. Veterinary
• ‘CHAPTER IX. – LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.’ (ff 413-417), consisting of: 1. Local Board Administration; 2. Municipal Administration; 3. Bombay Improvement Trust; 4. Port Trusts; 5. Rent Acts
• ‘CHAPTER X. – FINANCIAL.’ (ff 418-424), consisting of: 1. Financial Review, 1920-21; 2. Land Revenue; 3. Irrigation Revenue; 4. Public Works Revenue; 5. Customs; 6. Salt; 7. Excise; 8. Cotton Duties Act; 9. Stamps; 10. Taxes on Income; 11. Local Funds
• ‘CHAPTER XI. INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 425-426), consisting of: consisting of: 1. Education; 2. Literature and the Press; 3. Arts and Sciences
• ‘CHAPTER XII. ARCHEAOLOGY.’ (f 427), consisting of: Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle
• ‘CHAPTER XIII. – MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 428-430), consisting of: 1. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; 2. Stationary; 3. Printing; 4. General Miscellaneous.

There is a map of the Bombay Presidency on folio 325. The report also includes the following photographs:

• ‘11 – Holkar’s Bridge Water Works, Kirkee [Khadki]. EMERGENCY WATER WORKS – 1919. Setting and Coagulating Tanks and Rapid Filters. Capacity 1 Million Gallons Daily’ (f 382)
• ‘12 – General View of the Gangasagar Tank and Pumping Station.’ (f 383)
• ‘13 – Oil Engines at Gangasagar.’ (f 383)
• ‘14 – View showing mixing Channel masonry service reservoir and C.I. Tanks.’ (f 384)
• ‘15 – View showing 8” rising main automatic arrangement and Chemical Storage Tank at the Chlorinating Plant.’ (f 384)
• ‘1 – Honorary Presidency Magistrates Court, Girgaon, Bombay. (Work in Progress)’ (f 386)
• ‘2 – Out-Patients Department, Sir J. J. Hospital, Bombay. (Work in Progress)’ (f 386a)
• ‘3 – Bungalow for Private and Military Secretaries to H. E. the Governor of Bombay’ (f 388)
• ‘4 – George V Hall in the Gujarat College at Ahmedabad.’ (f 389)
• ‘16 – Offices of the Development Directorate of Bombay.’ (f 391)
• ‘17 – Staff Quarters. David Sassoon Industrial and Reformatory Institution at Matunga.’ (f 392)
• ‘18 – Police Accommodation Scheme in Bombay. Quarters for 3 European Officers and 6 Indian Sub-Inspectors on Sandhurst Road (East.)’ (f 394)
• ‘19 – Bungalow for the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, in No. 1A. Queen’s Garden, Poona [Pune]. NORTH EAST VIEW.’ (f 395)
• ‘10 – Bungalows at Karachi for the Superintending Engineers, Indus Right and Left Bank Divisions.’ (f 396)
• ‘20 – Bungalow for the Inspector General of Police, Bombay Presidency at Yeravda [Yerwada or Yerawada], Poona. NORTH WEST VIEW.’ (f 397)
• ‘5 Causeway at Gurlhosur.’ (f 398)
• ‘6 – Causeway at Manoli.’ (f 399)
• ‘7 – Causeway at Kolhar.’ (f 400)
• ‘8 – Causeway at Kamatagi.’ (f 401)
• ‘9 – Causeway at Anagwadi’ (f 402)
• ‘21 – Bridge over the River Ghod at Kalamb, in Mile No. 41, on Poona Nasik [or Nashik] Road. SOUTH EAST VIEW.’ (f 402a).

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 326. 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.