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'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [222v] (436/541)
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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424
[Bombay'] indo-european telegraph department.
and found some men at work excavating a new one. About
half way we passed a village a mile to our right, and another
on the road, three miles from Kushkuh, with a kaleh, called
Aliabad, where there was a good'deal of cultivation. Kush
kuh is a small village with good water and well cultivated
ground, a kaleh, a new
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, and a chaper khaneh.
Bearing of Shems peak 312°; of point of Dawiran ran^e
104°.
37. January 8th .—Kushkuh to Bairamabad: distance
tw^enty-six miles. The first sixteen miles are over a sandy,
lumpy road, the plain on both sides covered with tamarisk
shrubs and camel-thorn. The rest of the road is good.
The plain here is about forty miles broad, with the
road nearly in the middle. Four miles from Kushkuh we
passed some ruins ; at eight miles a small village to the right
called Daveh, at sixteen miles the villages, first on the right,
of Hooseinabad, second on the road, Hormuzabad, and third
on the left, Dehenabadand Mehdiabad. These small villages,
all very near each other, are surrounded with cultivated
ground, and probably contain collectively about one hundred
houses. Between them and Bairamabad we saw a £ood
many kanats, and extensive cultivation as we approached the
end of the march. Bairamabad is quite new, owing its
existence to the well-directed energy of the
Wakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
-ul-Mulk.
Where ten years ago there was nothing but a chaper khaneh
in the middle of the desert there is now a town of at least
1,000 well-built houses, the centre of a circle of a cultivation
seven or eight miles in diameter, and well supplied with
water. Bazaars are springing up in the town; there is even
a yakhchol or ice-house, and the whole place wears a thriving
aspect. r l he chaper khaneh is very good, and there is a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
lately built by a Kerman merchant. Two or
three miles to the north are the ruins of the former Ahadeh
of Kaleh Aga, which was destroyed some fifteen years ago by
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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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