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'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [223r] (437/541)
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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INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT,
{Bombay^
a torrent during the sudden melting of an unusually heavy ~
fall of sno vv\ Bearing of Shems peak 303,1°.
38. January 9th .—Bairamabad to Kebuter Khan : dis
tance twenty-six miles. Road as before over a level plain.
The first five miles are through the well-cultivated district of
Bairamabad, near the ^extremity of which we passed the
village of Abdulabad. This is succeeded by eighteen miles
over a pebbly desert, with sparse patches of camel-thorn,
and the last three miles are through soft heavy sand thickly
covered with large botta. Kebuter Khan (so named perhaps
from an old pigeon-tower) is a small village containing about
forty houses, an old
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
recently repaired, and a
diaper khaneh. The present village appears to be nearly
new, the old one, close by, being ruined and deserted.
Throughout to-day’s march we have seen straight to our front
the high snowy hills beyond Kerman. Bearings : Shems
peak (indistinct) 282°; point of Dawiran range 62°.
39. January 1 Oth .—Kebuter Khan to Baghin : distance
thirty miles. Fourteen miles from Kebuter Khan over flat
plain of hard, light coloured sandy soil with almost no vege
tation, we reached Robat, an excellent
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and
tank of fresh water recently built by 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.
The
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
is solidly built of hard burnt bricks and
lime, has good rooms jitted with doors (the only instance of
such a luxury I have seen in Persia), and a spacious belakha-
neh for the use of travellers in summer. Near the caravan
serai there is a small village and a little cultivation. At Robat
the valley contracts, owing to a separate range of hills
nearly parallel to the road that here springs up on the right.
From Robat to Baghin the road slightly rises over a some
what more stony desert, passing on the right about four
miles from Baghin the small village of Saadi. Baghin is
now a village of sixty or eighty houses, although the
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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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