IOR/V/10/317/2

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 1922-23. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1924.

The report is divided into two parts. Part I (ff 226-237) comprises a report ‘GENERAL SUMMARY’, consisting of: [Political]; Finance; Trade and Commerce; Agriculture; Department of Agriculture; Education; Law and Justice; Police and Crime; Bombay City Police; Public Health; Salt; Excise; the Co-operative Movement; Public Works; Development Department.

PART II (ff 238-291) comprises the following headings, which are further divided into sub-headings:

• CHAPTER I ‘INDIAN STATES.’ (ff 238-245), 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; Condition of the people
• CHAPTER II ‘ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.’ (ff 245-251), consisting of: Land Records; Revenue Surveys; the Record of Rights; Remissions of Revenue; System of Land Tenure; the Gujarat Talukdars Act; Sind Incumbered Estates Act; the Court of Wards Act; Department of Land Records; Routine Measurement Work; Revenue Surveys; City Surveys; Revision Settlements
• CHAPTER III ‘LAW AND JUSTICE’ (ff 252-260), consisting of: the Budget; Course of Legislation; Administration of Justice; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; Registration; Conditions of Trade; Joint Stock Companies
• CHAPTER IV ‘POLICE AND CRIME’ (ff 261-282), consisting of: Bombay City Police; Village Police; Aden Police; Government Male and Female Workhouses; Bombay Jails; Criminal Tribes
• CHAPTER V ‘AGRICULTURE, WEATHER AND CROPS.’ (ff 283-304), consisting of: Nature of the Crops; Outturn of the Crops; Condition of the Agricultural Population; Aid to Cultivators; Agricultural Research and its Application; Checking of Pests and Blights; Note on the Weather; Prices; Labour and Wages; Forests; Co-operative Movement; Horticulture
• CHAPTER VI ‘TRADE AND COMMERCE’ (ff 304-324), consisting of: Department of Industries; the Factories Act; Sea-borne Trade; Foreign Trade; Foreign Merchandise; Indian Produce and Manufactures; Trade According to Countries; Shipping; Coasting Trade; Subordinate Ports of the Presidency; the Trade of Sind; Shipping Offices; the Labour Office
• CHAPTER VII ‘PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 324-335), consisting of: Irrigation; Deccan and Gujarat; Railways
• CHAPTER VIII ‘VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF’ (ff 335-346), consisting of: [Births and Deaths]; Epidemic Diseases; Hospitals and Dispensaries; Sanitation; Vaccination; Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory; Anti-Rabic Treatment; Veterinary; Chemical Analysers; Wild Animals and Venomous Snakes; Mental [psychiatric] Hospitals; Acworth Leper Asylum [hospital for people affected by leprosy or Hansen’s Disease], Matunga; Emigration and Immigration
• CHAPTER IX ‘LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT’ (ff 347-353), consisting of: District Municipalities; Bombay Municipality; Local Board Administration; Bombay Improvement Trust; Bombay Port Trust; Karachi Port Trust; Aden Port Trust; Working of the Rent Acts
• CHAPTER X ‘COLLECTION OF REVENUE AND FINANCIAL REVIEW’ (ff 353-371), consisting of: the Budget for 1922-23; Loan Accounts; Land Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Customs Administration; Salt Department; Excise; Cotton Duties Act; Stamps; Taxes on Income; Miscellaneous Funds
• CHAPTER XI ‘INSTRUCTION’ (ff 372-377), consisting of: Education; Books and Publications; Newspapers; Royal Asiatic Society; Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay; Prince of Wales Museum; Victoria Museum, Karachi
• CHAPTER XII ‘ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 379), consisting of: [Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle]
• CHAPTER XIII ‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 380-391), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; the Established Church of England; the Established Church of Scotland; Stationary; Printing; Bombay Development Department; Back Bay Reclamation; Industrial Housing; Town Planning Schemes; Suburban Schemes; Salsette-Trombay Railway; Advisory Committees; Military (Indian Auxiliary and Territorial Forces); Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Advances to Cultivators; Trade and Industries.

The report includes the following photographs:

• ‘Shanwar Wada [Shaniwar Wada], Poona [Pune] City. The palace plinth showing front Courtyard after excavation.’ (f 225)
• ‘Special party who led the main attack against Mirkhan’s gang in the Shirohi hills, North Gujarat, on the 12th April 1923 under the command of Mr. M. A. O’Gorman. The mare on the extreme left is Mirkan’s famous black mare.’ (f 262)
• ‘A gang of house breakers after arrest in East Khandesh.’ (f 264)
• ‘Armed Guards against running goods’ train thefts.’ (f 264)
• ‘Special Police at Kadhan, Thar Parkar [Tharparkar] District, for the operations against dacoits.’ (f 268)
• ‘The garden of Thana [Thane] Special Prison.’ (f 273)
• ‘Agriculture at Dharar Juvenile Jail.’ (f 275)
• ‘Carpet making at the Yeravda [Yerwada or Yerawada] Central Prison.’ (f 277)
• ‘Carpet making at Karachi Prison.’ (f 279)
• ‘Karachi Prison. Convicts using the charkha.’ (f 279)
• ‘Manual Training Class at Bijapur Settlement School.’ (f 281)
• ‘Sholapur [Solapur] Settlement School garden.’ (f 281)
• ‘Potatoes. Effect of spraying against Tambera Disease. Left–unsprayed area. Right–sprayed area.’ (f 287)
• ‘Agricultural Department Station for Rice Research at Karjat (Kolaba District).’ (f 289)
• ‘Young plantation of spineless cactus as Famine fodder.’ (f 291)
• ‘Loni Agricultural School. Boys filling silos and learning to prepare silage.’ (f 293)
• ‘Teak Nursery in Kanara [Karavali] Forest.’ (f 299)
• ‘Dapuri Workshops. Iron castings made in the Foundry.’ (f 305)
• ‘Dapuri Workshops. Some of the Apprentices.’ (f 305)
• ‘Lloyd Bridge, Poona.’ (f 325)
• ‘Electrical Engineer’s Department. Laboratory and testing room.’ (f 326)
• ‘Sholapur District. Causeway over the river Bhima at Pandharpur.’ (f 328)
• ‘Lake Arthur Hill. Bhandardara Dam. Downstream view of Dam, June 1923.’ (f 330)
• ‘Downstream view of the new Jamshora Regulator under construction over Fuleli Canal, Sind.’ (f 332)
• ‘Sea Wall at Gogo [Ghogha]. North-East End View.’ (f 334)
• ‘Vaccine Institute, Belgaum [Belagavi]. Filling tubes with lymph.’ (f 339)
• ‘Vaccine Institute, Belgaum, The Sterilising room.’ (f 339)
• ‘Pandharpur Fair. Chandrabhaga, portion of the Bhima, skirting round Pandharpur. Scenes at the River side.’ (f 341)
• ‘Pandharpur Fair. Outflow from the waiting shed. Women waiting their turn to enter temple viâ women’s shed.’ (f 343)
• ‘Pandharpur Fair. Food brought by pilgrims from their homes and exposed to sunlight before consuming.’ (f 345)
• ‘Pandharpur Fair. Water-supply arrangements at Wakhari, three miles from Pandharpur. Pilgrims coming by road camp here.’ (f 345)
• ‘Dadar Salt Works, as seen from Raoli Hill.’ (f 363)
• ‘Bhayandar Preventative Station. Unloading salt boats.’ (f 365)
• ‘Kharaghoda Salt Works. Showing the labourers working at the open stores with bags ready for weighing.’ (f 367)
• ‘Government Central Distillery, Nasik [or Nashik] Road. The Engine Road.’ (f 369)
• ‘Khan Masjid at Dholka, Ahmedabad District, overlooking the Khan Tank.’ (f 377)
• ‘Caves at Elephanta.’ (f 379)
• ‘Industrial Housing Scheme. General view of completed chawl.’ (f 383)
• ‘Suburban Scheme No. 7 (Khar); showing new roads under construction to the West of the Bandra-Ghodbundar [Ghodbunder] Road.’ (f 385)
• ‘Suburban Scheme No. 3. Road construction in the new Garden suburb at Chembur.’ (f 387).

There are also diagrams showing the following: ‘DISTRIBUTION OF PRINCIAL HEADS OF REVENUE FOR THE YEAR 1922 – 23’ (f 355); ‘DISTRIBUTION OF PRINCIPAL HEADS OF EXPENDITURE, MET FROM REVENUE, FOR THE YEAR 1922-23.’ (f 357); and ‘TOTAL EXPENDITURE FROM REVENUE FOR THE YEARS 1912-13 TO 1922-23’ (f 359).

There are appendices on folios 391-394, and an index on folios 395-397. There is a map of the Bombay Presidency on folio 398.

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 223-224. 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.