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'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’ [45r] (85/266)
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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EWH
EDUCATION-
In the Government Vernacular schools, which number 689, and contain
a total of 43,594 pupils, an increase is reported over the returns
of 1861-62 of 42 schools and 5528 pupils. 1861-62 itself presented an
increase over 1860-61 of 5544 pupils, while this last year showed an
increase over 1859-60 of 5895. In 1858 the Vernacular schools were
506 in number, at the end of 1862-63, 689 ; and while the 506 Verna
cular schools of 1858 educated only 25,100 pupils, an average of less than 50
scholars to each school, the 689 schools of 1862-63 were educating 43,594
scholars, being an average of more than 62 scholars to each school. Yet in
the interval there had been, on the one hand, no increase of the Educational
Grant, while, on the other, in 1861-62 the fees in all schools had been
doubled. In 1857-58 the fees collected in Government Schools of all grades
amounted to
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
38,515, in 1861-62 to
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
67,624, and in 1862-63
to
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
77,675.
2. Many of the Vernacular schools also contain English teaching
classes, the pupils in which pay a higher fee. In some cases Municipal
assignments have been appropriated to the establishment of such classes.
Of Vernacular schools in general, however, the Director of Public Instruction
is unable to say that their quality has improved in a similar degree to that
of their increase in numbers and pupils.
3. The English and Superior Vernacular schools were 24 in number,
and were educating 4066 scholars. In 1861-62 these schools were 25 in
number, but the scholars only 3663, showing an increase of 403 pupils.
In 1863, 12 candidates from these schools succeeded in passing the
Matriculation examination of the University of Bombay. The more
important of the English schools are classed by themselves as High Schools.
They are the Central School, Elphinstone Institution, the Poona College
School, the Ahmedabad, Surat, and Rutnagherry High Schools. With
them may be counted the Proprietary School, Bombay. “ The Honorable
Mr. Rustomjee Jamsetjee had offered
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
1,00,000 for the foundation
of English schools for his countrymen in Guzerat and Bombay.”
4. The three Inspectors it had been ordered were henceforward
to divide the
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.
according to the prevalence of particular lan
guages. Thus the Southern Division was to be purely Canarese, the
Northern purely Guzerati, the Central Marathi. Each was to be under
1 EDU
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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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- 'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1862-63’
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