IOR/V/10/318/3

Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency,providing a summary record of the main events and developments in eachdepartment of the Government of Bombay during the financial year 1929-30. The report was printed at the Government Central Press,Bombay [Mumbai], in 1931.

The report begins with ‘PART I GENERAL SUMMARY’(ff 338-347), and ‘PART II’ is then divided into the following chapters, mostof which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘CHAPTER I INDIAN STATES’ (ff 348-353), consisting of: North Gujarat; South Gujarat; North Konkan; South Konkan; The Deccan; Kolhapur and Southern Maratha Country States; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Condition of the People
• ‘CHAPTER II ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 354-356), consisting of: Land Records; Gujarat Talukdars Act; Sind Incumbered Estates Act; The Court of Wards Act; Department of Land Records; Routine Measurement Work; Revision Surveys; Revision Settlements; City Surveys; Waste Lands
• ‘CHAPTER III LAW AND JUSTICE’ (ff 357-364), consisting of: Resolutions and Questions; Course of Legislation; Administration of Justice; Bombay Presidency (Proper); Sind; Registration; Joint Stock Companies
• ‘CHAPTER IV POLICE AND CRIME’ (ff 365-374), consisting of: Mofussil Police; Sind Police; Bombay City Police; Village Police; Aden Police; Government Male and Female Workhouses; Bombay Jails; Criminal Tribes
• ‘CHAPTER V AGRICULTURE, WEATHER AND CROPS’ (ff 375-411), consisting of: Nature of the Crops; Agricultural Stock; Department of Agriculture; Advances to Cultivators; Note on the Weather; Prices; Mofussil Labour and Wages; Forests; Co-operative Movement; Horticulture
• ‘CHAPTER VI TRADE AND COMMERCE’ (ff 411-432), consisting of: Industries; Department of Industries; The Factories Act; The Workmen’s Compensation Act; The Bombay Maternity Benefit Act, 1929; Bombay Boiler Inspection Department; Sea-borne Trade; Foreign Trade; Foreign Merchandise; Indian Produce and Manufactures; Trade According to Countries; Subordinate Ports of the Bombay Presidency; The Trade of Sind; Trade of Aden; Shipping Offices
• ‘CHAPTER VII PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 433-441), consisting of: Irrigation; Sind; Deccan and Gujarat; Railways
• ‘CHAPTER VIII VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF’ (ff 442-458), consisting of: Epidemic Diseases; Hospitals and Dispensaries; Sanitation; Vaccination; The Haffkine Institute; Veterinary; Chemical Analysers; Mental Hospitals [psychiatric hospitals]; Acworth Leper Asylum [hospital for persons affected by leprosy or Hansen’s Disease], Matunga; Kondhwa Leper Asylum, Poona [Pune]; Emigration and Immigration
• ‘CHAPTER IX LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT’ (ff 458-466), consisting of: District Municipalities; Bombay Municipality; Local Board Administration; Bombay Improvement Trust; Bombay Port Trust; Karachi Port Trust; Aden Port Trust; Karachi Rent Restriction Act, 1929
• ‘CHAPTER X COLLECTION OF REVENUE AND FINANCIAL REVIEW’ (ff 466-478), consisting of: Land Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Customs Administration; Salt Department; Excise; Stamps; Taxes on Income
• ‘CHAPTER XI INSTRUCTION’ (ff 478-483), consisting of: Education; Yeravda [Yerawada] Reformatory; Books and Publications; Newspapers; Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay; Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay; Prince of Wales Museum of Western India; Victoria Museum, Karachi
• ‘CHAPTER XII ARCHÆOLOGY’ (ff 484-486)
• ‘CHAPTER XIII MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 486-490), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; The Established Church of England; The Established Church of Scotland; Stationery; Printing; Bombay Development Department.

The report contains several photographs and graphs, whichare listed on folio 337v. It also contains a map of the Bombay Presidency,which is on folio 497.

A table of contents listing the parts, chapters andsub-headings of the report is on folios 336-337. In a small number of instancesthere are discrepancies in the phrasing or inclusion of sub-headings betweenthe 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.

The volume includes appendices (ff 491-493) anda subject index (ff 494-496) with reference to the original pagination.