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'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [226v] (444/541)
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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[Bombay'] indo-european telegraph department.
51. January \lth .—Khanakeh to Rayin: twenty-six
miles. For the first six miles we rapidly ascended over the
snow to the crest of the hills, about four miles beyond which
we descended to Kaleh Shur, a small
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, or rather
stable, hardly above the level of the ground. A mile or
two below Kaleh Shur we cleared the hills, but continued
to descend over an even glacis slope until within four miles of
the end of the march, when we suddenly turned to the right
over some low hills and across a narrow plain to Rayin, situ
ated on a slight eminence under a lofty snow peak called
the Shah Kuh. From near Kaleh Shur we had seen in the
distance, and nearly straight ahead, the high snowy range of
Deh Bukri and Sarbezan. Rayin is a small town of five hun
dred or six hundred houses, the residence of the Zabit, or
governing agent of the country as far as Sabristan. We
found on our arrival at Rayin that we were considered as
guests of the Wukil-ul-Mulk, the Zabit providing us with
everything, and not allowing us to buy anything for
ourselves.
52. January 18^/u — Obliged to halt at Rayin on ac
count of a snow-storm which lasted all day.
53. January \9th .—During the night it blew aperfect
gale, with heavy rain which melted the snow that fell yester
day. Marched from Rayin to Tehrood, thirty-three miles,
for the first fourteen miles w r e followed the direct road to
Sabristan, then crossing to our left a soft keveer or desert, in
which the horses sank at nearly every step above the fetlock,
we entered the half dry bed of a river, along which we wound
our way among low hills till we reached Tehrood. Tehrood
(lit. the bottom of the river) seems to be the name ofa small
district rather than of any village in particular. It contains
a few scattered hamlets of four or five houses each, and a
large mud
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
in which we passed the night.
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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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