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'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [229r] (449/541)
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.
43?
[Bombay J
stream of fresh water, the banks of which were covered with
date trees. Then turning to the left for two miles I reached
the castle and large reed village of Guiashkird, the property
of Nur-ed-Din Khan. It stands on an eminence near some
bare rocky hills, and overlooks an extensive plain in the
direction of Bunder Abbas.
64. January 29th .—Guiashkird to Roodkhaneh-i-
Duzdi (Robbers’ river) : nineteen miles across the plain, over
looked by Guiashkird. This plain is flat and sandy, with a
thin sprinkling of jujube and tamarisk trees. Roodkhaneh-i-
Duzdi, at which there is a small village and a large half-ruined
fort, with a good ditch, is the boundary of the provinces
of Kerman and Ears, a corner of the latter of which here
projects to the eastward between Kerman and the Bunder
Abbas district. The river, flowing to the eastward, is, I
believe, the same that reaches Minab.
65. January 30^A.—Roodkhaneh-i-Duzdi to Godar
Shooran or Godar Rahdar: fifteen miles. After crossino-
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the river I gradually ascended over hilly ground and dry
beds of streams to Godar Shooran, where there were four or
five small huts. About half way I passed a square open tank
of fresh water by the side of the road. Within a mile of
Godar the road to Minab branches off to the left.
66. January '31 st .—Six hours and a half on the road
from Godar Shooran to an Eliant camp, at which I halted,
under the Kuh-i-Nehyun, nearly the whole way over a
most difficult mountain pass. Six miles gradual ascent from
a small stream, which I crossed near Godar, brought me to
the
Watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
, from which I at once began a steep, rocky
descent over which it was impossible to ride. Six miles
down I passed a small date plantation called Nevergoo,
which gives its name to the pass. From this point the
road after a sharp descent followed the bed of a considerable
stream, the Zinyum river, until 1 got clear of the hills, and
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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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