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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [30v] (56/266)
The record is made up of 1 item (144 folios). It was created in 29 Aug 1863-27 Jul 1865. 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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50
[Bombay]
POLITICAL,
Cambay.
used as a sanitarium, has been entirely deserted by Europeans, and is now
never visited, save on one or two occasions in the year, when Government
Officers are called thither on matters of business.
Kattywar.
KATTYWAR.
52. The total area of Kattywar is 22,500 square miles, of which
21,000 are under the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
. There are at present 379 separate
political and judicial jurisdictions under the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, and sixty more are
claimed. The gross total income of all the Chiefs and Zemindars is estimat
ed at Rs. 86,51,200, and the annual collection made by the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
amounted last year to
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
11,81,140. Of these collections
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
3,10,000 are made for His Highness the Guicowar,
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
64,500 for His
Highness the
Nawab
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
of Joonaghur, and
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
83,270 on the behalf of
Local Funds. For the British Government
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
7,23,370 were collected.
The present Agent had as Assistants at his disposal, at the close of the year
under report, five European officers.
53. Of the criminal returns for 1862 sent up from Kattywar it is
said that they do not attain even approximate accuracy. The judicial
administration is distributed among the chiefs and landholders on the one
part, and among the executive officers of the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
on the other;
but as landed property is equally divided among brothers, and as the
possession of each share of territory confers on the possessor judicial and
administrative prerogatives more or less complete, the consequence has been
an immense multiplication of the class of landholders who possess criminal
jurisdiction. What these separate jurisdictions are will best be estimated
from the following account of them :—
“ There are five substantive States on which Government have
conferred first class criminal jurisdiction ; and eight smaller States
with second class criminal jurisdiction.
The remainder of the province is divided amongst—
1 person who has 60 towns and villages.
3 persons who have respectively 38, 40, and 41 towns and villages..
2 Do. do. 25 each.
4 Do. do. from 15 to 20 villages each.
17 Do. do. from 10 to 15 each.
26 Do. do. from 5 to 10 each.
12 Do. do. 4 villages each.
13 Do. do. 3 do.
16 Do. do. 2 do.
103 Do. do. less than 2 villages each.
150 Do.. do, do. 1 village each.
10
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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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