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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [26v] (48/266)
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POLITICAL.
42
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Catch. . vessels from Muscat and Aden say that in returning from those places after
the monsoon they found the sea covered with dead locusts for some hundreds
of miles from Mandavee. The close of the monsoon was also marked by a
severe storm accompanied with rain, which was followed, as is customary in
Cutch, by prevalent fever.
6. The estimated revenue of the year ending the 20th of June 1863
is in korees 4,670,223, a larger sum than has been before reached. Part
of the increase is due to a duty of 5 per cent, ad valorem on all exports. The
comparatively large number of 25,750 people emigrated during the year.
A number of them were artizans and workpeople who went mostly to Sind.
7. Of the Judicial Returns from Cutch it may be mentioned that
40 instances of suicide are recorded, five cases only being of persons who
belong to castes in which suicide counts as a religious act. The most
common cause registered is “ bodily ailment,” generally “ fever.”
8. All the more serious crimes committed in Cutch are, it is stated,
disposed of by the caste Punchayets. Judicial inquiries not conducted by
these bodies devolve upon the farmers of revenue, whose farms are rarely of
greater duration than the period of one }^ear.
9. Improvements of the harbour of Mandavee, the principal port of
Cutch, are, it is said, checked by the selfishness or foolishness of the mer
chants. These obstructives are, perhaps, shipowners as well as merchants,
since they are stated to fear the competition of a larger class of shipping should
the approaches to the port be improved. Cotton screw-presses have been
introduced into most of the ports, and cleansing gins have been ordered.
10. The authorities are not reported to take much interest in
education ; but during the year under report His Highness had personally
examined the two principal schools, those at Bhooj and Mandavee. His
younger brother, Prince Humeerjee of Tera, had opened a school on the
Government plan in his own talooka. The Rao promises to establish a school
at Anjar, the third town in the province for importance and population.
Mr. Jetta Shunker, the Head Master of the Bhooj school, and formerly a
student at Elphinstone College, informs the Agent that some demand is
springing up for books and cheap literature in the vernacular, a demand
“ which certainly never existed before.”
11. A practical gauge, however, of the real standing of Cutch in intel
ligence, may perhaps be the progress making by vaccination. Only seventy-
nine persons were vaccinated during the year under report. The supply of
lymph failed, and all attempts made to introduce fresh lymph also failed.
Endeavours were making at the date of report to propagate lymph, by
“ getting a child over from the Kattywar side of the Gulf from which to
carry it on, but the season is against it.”
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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 1862-63.
The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 6-15), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails
- ‘FINANCE AND REVENUE’ (ff 16-25), consisting of: Finance; The Mint; Revenue; Cash Alienations; Land Alienations; Sayer (Income Tax, Stamps, &c.); Customs; Imports; Import Revenue; Export Revenue; Frontier Duties; General Trade; Opium; Salt Excise; Financial and Commercial Legislation
- ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 26-35), consisting of: Sattara [Satara]; Kolhapore [Kolhapur]; The Southern Maratha Country; Cutch [Kachchh]; Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha] and Punch Mahals [Panch Mahals]; Guzerat [Gujarat]; Aden; Savanoor [Savanur]; Surat; Mahee Kanta [Mahi Kantha]; Edur [Idar]; Cambay [Khambhat]; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Sind [Sindh]; Pahlunpoor [Palanpur]; Junjeera [Janjira]
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 36-39), consisting of: Sattara; Bombay [Mumbai] Harbour Defences; Belgaum and Kolapoor [Kolhapur]; Poona [Pune] Districts; The Civil Architect; Dharwar [Dharwad]; Ahmedabad and Kaira [Kheda]; Northern Concan [Konkan]; Mhow; Poona Cantonment; Kirkee [Khadki] Cantonment; Nassick [Nashik] Districts; Agra Road, Beaora [Biaora] Division; The Garrison and Dockyard Engineer, Bombay; Agra Road, Mhow Division; Sholapore [Solapur]; Ahmednuggur [Ahmednagar]; Surat and Broach [Bharuch]
- ‘PUBLIC WORKS, RAILWAY’ (ff 40-43), consisting of: Railway Operations; Bombay, Baroda [Vadodara], and Central India Railway; The Sind Railway; Indus Steam Flotilla
- ‘MILITARY DEPARTMENT’ (f 44), consisting of: Military Department; Marine Department
- ‘EDUCATION’ (ff 45-46)
- ‘THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT’ (f 47)
- ‘CONSERVANCY AND MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION’ (ff 48-50), consisting of: Bombay; Revenue Survey
- ‘FORESTS’ (f 51)
- ‘MISCELLANEOUS’ (f 52).
The remainder of the item consists of appendices to the ‘JUDICIAL’ section of the report. Appendices A and B (f 53) contain lists of Acts passed, respectively, by the Government of India and 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. . Appendix C (ff 53-64) contains a list of bills under consideration by 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. . Appendix D (ff 65-146) consists of a detailed report on jails by the Inspector-General of Prisons. Appendix D is dated 29 August 1863 and contains an inserted sheet of corrections (f 66) dated 27 July 1865. A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 5. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling or phrasing of sub-headings between the table of contents and the body of the report. In these cases the sub-heading as it appears in the body of the report is included above.
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