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'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [139r] (270/541)
The record is made up of 1 item (278 folios). It was created in 1865-1866. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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ed, and to the administrative difficulties—financial and other
- and the consequent delays which would inevitably attend
joint action by the Society and Government, thinks that the
present connection of the Military Asylum with the Bombay
Education Society should cease so soon as by other means the
care and education ofthe children of the Military Asylum can
be provided.
“ For this purpose His Excellency in Council will recom
mend that an Asylum be established in England solely for
the children of soldiers who shall subscribe according to the
rules ofthe Military Asylum, with such modifications as may
be needful, and that it be wholly maintained by the State.
“ It would still be necessary to have some Asylum in
India for those too young to be sent home immediately, or
whose parents desire to keep them in India whilst theirselves
leside there, or for those only needing the protection ofthe
Asylum temporarily, as when a regiment goes on field service.
Until the numbers and necessities of these classes should be
known by experience, the Bombay Education Society would
doubtlessly continue to receive these on adequate payment
by the Government.
“ The excellencies of this plan are manifold. The
education of British orphans in England instead of in India
would advantage in the highest degree every purpose which
calls foi the State s care of them. I he preservation of their
lives, their physical and moral growth, and consequently
their welfare and usefulness, the great mitigation of the
domestic anxieties of the married soldier and his wife in
India, giving consolation to them and more happiness and
dignity to their position, these things, in themselves most
important, would be helped in such large measure that it is
not easy to overstate the value of the Commission’s recom-
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Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. during the financial year 1865-66.
The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 7-30), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Court of Small Causes; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails
- ‘REVENUE’ (ff 31-42), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Income Tax; Customs, Salt and Opium
- ‘FINANCIAL’ (ff 43-50), consisting of: Finance; Mint; Paper Currency
- ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 51-58), consisting of: Political; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [also known as Kachchh]; Rewankanta [Rewa Kanthar]; Khadeish; Surat; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 59-117), consisting of: Military Army; Ordance; Commissariat; Military Finance Offices; Civil Buildings; Public Improvements
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS – RAILWAY’ (ff 118-134) consisting of: GIP [Great Indian Peninsular] Railway; BB and CI [Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian] Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Valley Survey; Indus Steam Flotilla
- ‘MILITARY’ (ff 135-161)
- ‘PENSIONERS’ COLONY AT CHALLISGAUM [Chalisgaon]’ (f 162)
- ‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH’ (ff 163-251). This section gives details on the Mekran [Makran] Coast and Musandam telegraph station. This section also has appendices: A (letter from Colonel Frederic John Goldsmid, Director in Chief of Indo-European Telegraph, and a report by Major Smith on the Island of Angaum [Hengam]); B (a report by Colonel Goldsmid of his journey through Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. [Ottoman Iraq] and Asia Minor [Turkey]); C (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid and reports by himself, Major Smith of the Royal Engineers, and Mr Johnstone, British Agent at Busrah [Basra], of the journey from Ispahan [Isfahan] to Gwadur [Gwadar] to survey the land for connecting the Persian [Iranian] and Mekran Coast land lines of the telegraph); and D (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid with enclosure proposing an alternative land line from Gwadur to join the main Persian line between Bushire [Bushehr] and Tehran).
- ‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 252-258)
- ‘MEDICAL’ (ff 259-260)
- ‘SURVEYS’ (ff 261-265), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical Survey
- ‘FORESTS’ (ff 266-268)
- ‘EMIGRATION’ (f 269)
- ‘MILLS’ (ff 270-272)
- ‘MUNICIPAL’ (ff 273-275)
- ‘ECCLESIASTICAL’ (ff 276-277)
- ‘COTTON FRAUDS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 278-279)
- ‘POPULATION, SIND’ (f 280)
- ‘AGRICULTURE, SIND’ (f 281).
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-6. There are two maps relating to surveys of the Indo-European Telegraph line.
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- 'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66'
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- 3r:29r, 30r:41r, 42r:90r, 91r:166r, 167r:235r, 236r, 237r, 238r, 239r, 240r, 241r, 242r, 243r, 244r, 245r:267r, 268r:270r, 271r, 272r:281v
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