IOR/V/10/317/6

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 1926-27. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1928.

The report is divided into two parts. Part I (ff 851-863) comprises a report ‘GENERAL SUMMARY’, consisting of: [Political]; Finance; Trade and Commerce; Agriculture; Department of Agriculture; Instruction; Law and Justice; Police and Crime; Bombay City Police; Public Health; Salt; Excise; Forests; Co-operative Movement; Public Works; Bombay Development Department.

PART II (ff 864-990) comprises the following headings, which are further divided into sub-headings:

• CHAPTER I ‘INDIAN STATES.’ (ff 864-869), 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 869-872), consisting of: Land Records; Gujarat Talukdars’ Act; Sind Incumbered Estates Act; the Court of Wards Act; Department of Land Records; Routine Measurement Work; Revenue Surveys; Revision Settlements; City Surveys
• CHAPTER III ‘LAW AND JUSTICE.’ (ff 873-879), consisting of: Resolutions and Questions; Course of Legislation; Administration of Justice; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; Civil and Criminal Justice; Registration; Joint Stock Companies
• CHAPTER IV ‘POLICE AND CRIME’ (ff 880-889), consisting of: Mofussil and 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 890-916), consisting of: Nature of the Crops; Outturn of Crops; Department of Agriculture; Note on the Weather; Prices; Labour and Wages; Forests; Co-operative Movement; Horticulture
• CHAPTER VI ‘TRADE AND COMMERCE’ (ff 916-938), consisting of: Industries; Department of Industries; the Factories Act; the Workmen’s Compensation Act; Sea-borne Trade; Foreign Trade; Foreign Merchandise; Indian Produce and Manufactures; Trade According to Countries; Shipping; Coasting Trade; Subordinate Ports of the Bombay Presidency; the Trade of Sind; Shipping Offices
• CHAPTER VII ‘PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 938-950), consisting of: Irrigation; Sind; Deccan and Gujarat; Railways
• CHAPTER VIII ‘VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF’ (ff 951-959), consisting of: [Births and Deaths]; Epidemic Diseases; Hospitals and Dispensaries; Sanitation; Vaccination; 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 960-966), 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 967-976), consisting of: the Budget for 1926-27; Loan Accounts; No Revenue from Income Tax; Revenue and Expenditure; Land Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Customs Administration; Salt Department; Excise; Stamps; Taxes on Income
• CHAPTER XI ‘INSTRUCTION’ (ff 977-983), consisting of: Education; Yeravda [Yerwada or Yerawada] Reformatory; Books and Publications; Newspapers; Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay; Victoria and Albert Museum, Bombay; Prince of Wales Museum of Western India; Natural History Section; Victoria Museum, Karachi
• CHAPTER XII ‘ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 983-985), consisting of: [Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle]
• CHAPTER XIII ‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 985-990), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; the Established Church of England; the Established Church of Scotland; Stationary; Printing; Bombay Development Department; Industrial Housing Scheme; Railway Schemes; Military (Indian Auxiliary and Territorial Forces); Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Advances to Cultivators.

The report includes the following photographs:

• ‘THE COMPLETED WILSON DAM AT BHANDARDARA’ (f 850)
• ‘TOBACCO BREEDING–NADIAD’ (f 893)
• ‘GODHRA SCHOOLBOYS AT WORK’ (f 899)
• ‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY AGRICULTURAL SHOW–MARKETING SECTION’ (f 901)
• ‘BOMBAY PRESIDENCY AGRICULTURAL SHOW–SUBSIDIARY OCCUPATION COURT’ (f 903)
• ‘POONA [Pune] WATER WORKS: STEEL CHIMNEY IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION’ (f 939)
• ‘IMPROVEMENTS TO SURAT WATER SUPPLY–MANUFACTURE OF CONCRETE PIPES’ (f 941)
• ‘POONA WATER WORKS–ENGINE ROOM SHOWING MAIN PUMPS’ (f 943)
• ‘SUKKUR BARRAGE–EXCAVATION OF THE ROHRI CANAL’ (f 945)
• ‘SUKKAR BARRAGE–DRAGLINE EXCAVATORS AT WORK ON THE RICE CANAL’ (f 947)
• ‘SUKKAR BARRAGE–CENTRAL RICE CANAL UNDER CONSTRUCTION’ (949)
• ‘ARCHÆOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT: JOGESVARI CAVE NEAR ANDHERI – WEST ENTRACE’ (f 984)
• ‘BIJAPUR [Vijayapura]–GOLGUMBAZ [Gol Gumbaz], SHOWING MAIN ENTRANCE GATE IN THE COMPOUND WALL–VIEW FROM SOUTH’ (986).

There are also graphs showing the following: ‘WAGES (URBAN AREAS) AND COST OF LIVING’ (f 908); WAGES (RURAL AREAS) AND COST OF LIVING’ (f 910); ‘CHART I DEATHS IN 1926 AND PREVIOUS YEARS.’ (f 950); ‘DEATH-RATE AT EACH AGE PERIOD’ (f 951); ‘CHART IV ANNUAL INCIDENCE OF DEATHS FROM EPIDEMIC DISEASES’ (f 953); ‘DISTRIBUTION OF PRINCIPAL HEADS OF REVENUE FOR THE YEAR 1926-27.’ (f 967); ‘DISTRIBUTION OF PRINCIPAL HEADS OF EXPENDITURE MET FROM THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR 1926-27’ (f 969); ‘TOTAL EXPENDITURE CHARGED TO REVENUE’ (f 970).

There are appendices on folios 991-993, and an index on folios 994-996. There is a map of the Bombay Presidency on folio 997.

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 848-849. 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.