IOR/V/10/318/6

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 1932-33. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1934.

The report begins with ‘PART I GENERAL SUMMARY’ (ff 737-746), and ‘PART II’ is then divided into the following chapters, most of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘CHAPTER I ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 747-748), consisting of: Land Records; Gujarat Talukdars Act; Sind [Sindh] Incumbered Estates Act; The Court of Wards Act; Department of Land Records; Waste Lands
• ‘CHAPTER II LAW AND JUSTICE’ (ff 749-755), consisting of: Legislative Council; Course of Legislation; Administration of Justice; Bombay Presidency Proper; Sind; Registration; Joint Stock Companies
• ‘CHAPTER III POLICE AND CRIME’ (ff 755-763), consisting of: Mofussil Police; Sind Police; Bombay City Police; Village Police; Government Male and Female Workhouses; Bombay Jails; Criminal Tribes
• ‘CHAPTER IV AGRICULTURE, WEATHER AND CROPS’ (ff 764-780), consisting of: Nature of the Crops; Department of Agriculture; Advances to Cultivator; Note on the Weather; Prices in the Bombay Presidency in 1932-33; Mofussil Labour and Wages 1932-33; Forests; Co-operative Movement; Horticulture
• ‘CHAPTER V TRADE AND COMMERCE’ (ff 781-798), consisting of: Industries; Department of Industries; Development 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; Maritime Trade; Subordinate Ports
• ‘CHAPTER VI PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 799-802), consisting of: Irrigation; Sind; Deccan and Gujarat; Railways
• ‘CHAPTER VII VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF’ (ff 802-807), consisting of: 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]; British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (Indian Council), Bombay Branch; Emigration and Immigration
• ‘CHAPTER VIII LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT’ (ff 807-812), consisting of: Municipalities; Bombay Municipality; Local Board Administration; Bombay Improvement Trust; Bombay Port Trust; Karachi Port Trust; Karachi Rent Restriction Act
• ‘CHAPTER IX COLLECTION OF REVENUE AND FINANCIAL REVIEW’ (ff 812-820), consisting of: Land Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Excise
• ‘CHAPTER X INSTRUCTION’ (ff 821-824), 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 XI MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 825-828), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; The Established Church of England; The Established Church of Scotland; Stationery; Bombay Development Schemes.

A table of contents listing the parts, chapters and sub-headings of the report is on folios 735-736. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the 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.

The volume includes appendices (ff 829-831) and a subject index (ff 832-834) with reference to the original pagination.