!['GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [‎218r] (427/541)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001bb/IOR_V_10_280_0444.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [‎218r] (427/541)")
'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [218r] (427/541)
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. .
Transcription
This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.
IND 3-EUROPE A. IT TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT.
0
Point
nsllliiiiiujjj,
daWii
5 'HID,
na, 1 J5nijl?|
"’oroilei,!#!
iod kliiiit| r::
butkwui
■t of tk ij
ivelveoriffii
, whiclilbti:
i salt to, i
tilised ia iiic
ing along ^
onagl» s T
lesfroin ^ 1
halted. In the valleys between the hills we passed a good
many villages and mazrach, each provided with a small
defensible tower on a neighbouring eminence. Poodar, the
largest of these villages, situated about seven miles fromLag-
hereh, has a good-sized square fort. Most of the villages we
were told are the property of inhabitants of Nain. The last
of the hills which we passed before debouching on the plain
are of dark colour and fantastic form. One of them, by the
side of the road four miles from Bambiz, is a sugarloaf-shaped
peak, seen as a clear landmark from a great distance on the
Yezd road. Bambiz is a village of perhaps eighty or hundred
houses in the open plain, with no trees or gardens, and but
very little cultivation. There being no
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
we lodg
ed in the house of an old Hajji. The inhabitants, although
civil enough, were intrusively curious. Out of doors we were
accustomed to be stared at, but here the people climbed on
each others shoulders to look at us through the windows.
13. December 23rd .—Made a short march of twelve
miles from Bambiz to Nangumbaz, the road descending very
gradually the whole way over the slope from the foot of
the hills. At Nangumbaz we joined the direct post road
from Theran to Yezd via Kashan. There is a good caravan
serai of Shah Abbas, a chaper khaneh or post house, and a
kaleh or walled enclosure, but no village. The water is salt,
and there is almost no cultivation, only a few rayats living in
the kaleh. Some ruins of former buildings are to be seen
near the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
. Bearing of Bambiz sugarloaf peak
277cj°.
14. December 2ith .—Started from Nangumbaz at
8 - 20 ; weather very cold and cloudy. Rode over twelve
miles of flat, gravelly desert to a newly-built tank of rain
water which bore the inscription inside “ Ya Ali! Ami Hassan
Akdai.” After halting here a short time for breakfast we
continued our journey over a very similar country, passing
103
About this item
- Content
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.
- Extent and format
- 1 item (278 folios)
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
Use and share this item
- Share this item
'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [218r] (427/541), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/V/10/280/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100137004135.0x000025> [accessed 11 August 2026]
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100137004135.0x000025
Copy and paste the code below into your web page where you would like to embed the image.
<meta charset="utf-8"><a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100137004135.0x000025">'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [‎218r] (427/541)</a> <a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100137004135.0x000025"> <img src="https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001bb/IOR_V_10_280_0444.jp2/full/!280,240/0/default.jpg" alt="" /> </a>
This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100000000812.0x0001bb/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images
Copyright: How to use this content
- Reference
- IOR/V/10/280/1
- Title
- 'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66'
- Pages
- 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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence