IOR/V/10/318/4

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 1930-31. The report was printed at the Government Central Press,Bombay [Mumbai], in 1932.

The report begins with ‘PART I GENERAL SUMMARY’(ff 503-514), and ‘PART II’ is then divided into the following chapters, mostof which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘CHAPTER I INDIAN STATES’ (ff 515-520), 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 520-523), consisting of: Land Records; Gujarat Talukdars Act; Sind Incumbered Estates Act; The Court of Wards Act; Department of Land Records
• ‘CHAPTER III LAW AND JUSTICE’ (ff 523-531), 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 532-539), 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 540-562), consisting of: Nature of the Crops; Department of Agriculture; Services rendered to the Public; Sind; Note on the Weather; Prices; Mofussil Labour and Wages; Forests; Co-operative Movement; Horticulture. Information on Advances to Cultivators is included on folios 607-608, with the footnote ‘This note was received too late for inclusion in Chapter V.’
• ‘CHAPTER VI TRADE AND COMMERCE’ (ff 562-579), consisting of: Industries; Department of Industries; The Factories Act; The Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923; 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
• ‘CHAPTER VII PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 579-582), consisting of: Irrigation; Sind; Deccan and Gujarat; Railways
• ‘CHAPTER VIII VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF’ (ff 582-586), consisting of: Sanitation; Vaccination; Hospitals and Dispensaries; 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]; British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (Indian Council), Bombay Branch; Emigration and Immigration
• ‘CHAPTER IX LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT’ (ff 587-591), consisting of: 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 591-599), consisting of: Land Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Excise
• ‘CHAPTER XI INSTRUCTION’ (ff 599-603), 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’ (f 603)
• ‘CHAPTER XIII MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 604-607), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; The Established Church of England; The Established Church of Scotland; Stationery; Bombay Development Schemes.

The report contains some photographs and graphs, which arelisted on folio 502v.

A table of contents listing the parts, chapters andsub-headings of the report is on folios 501-502. 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 609-612) anda subject index (ff 613-615) with reference to the original pagination.