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'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1914-1915' [218v] (106/150)
The record is made up of 1 item (75 folios). It was created in 1915. 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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Chapter IV.
production
AND
distribution.
BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
i- ’SR-Igi"
B. —Figures for Capital Works only.
The receipts on capital irrigation works alone compared with the year’s
show a profit of Rs 28,80,311 in Sind and a loss of Rs. 36,47,604 in the Deccan atdr!?^ 6
Class of works.
Direct
receipts.
Indirect
receipts.
Total
direct
and
indirect
receipts.
Dire
Capital.
CT EXPEND]
Working
expenses
(including
the share of
collection
charges).
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
_
Rs.
Rs.
Deccan and Gujarat.
15 , 19-439
4,109
i 5 , 2 3,548
46,25,642
5 - 71,959
Major irrigation ... ■
1,67,677
28,67,729
^Sind
27,00,052
3.54,027
”. 58,434
Minor irrigation
Deccan and Gujarat.
i, 9 G 936
5.331
1,97,267
I ,733
OO
O
O'
co
works for which
capital and revenue*
accounts are kept.
(Sind
70,061
! 9 ,45.277
20,15,338
T 736
4,88,559
Totaf, Deccan and Gujarat
I 7- 11 -375
9,440
17,20,815
46,27,375
741,044
Total, Sind
2 , 37-738
46,45,329
48,83,067
3 , 55,763
1 6,46,993
Grand total, Deccan and Gujarat and Sind,
I 9 H-I 5
19 - 49- rI 3
46,54,769
66,03,882
49.83,138
23,88,037
Grand total, average of last three year’s
17,51,480
4*1,31,7!6
58,83,196
33 .H ,285
23,83,283
Rs,
SWifioi
1 5 >i 2 , 45 i
! » 70 , 8 i 8
The area under irrigation shows on the whole an increase of 12 per cent, on the
average of the last three years though there is small decrease in the Deccan and Gujarat.
These areas and estimated value of the crops grown are contrasted in the following state
ment :—
Area.
Value.
Capital works.
1914-15.
Average of
3 years
ending
1913-14.
Difference.
I 9 I 4 -I 5 -
, Average of
3 years
ending
I 913 - 14 -
Difference.
Major works—
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Deccan and Gujarat
129,704
142,210
- 12,506
1,31,86,242
1,12,08,263
+ 19 - 77,979
Sind
1,402,387
1,176,385
+ 226,002
3,30,02,964
3,19,10,007
+ 10 , 92,957
Total
1,532,091
i, 3 i 8,595
+ 213,496
4,61,89,206
4,3!,18,27°
+3070#
—
Minor works—
Deccan and Gujarat
30,802
41,602
- 10,800
13,61,002
17,46,806
' 3 - 8 5 M
Sind
1.065,951
979,522
+ 86,429
2,46,23,502
2,09,93,085
+ 36 , 3 °i 4 i 7
Total
T096 ,753
1,021,124
+ 75,629
2 , 59 , 84,504
2,27,39,891
432,44.613
Grand total ...
2,628,844
2 , 339,719
+ 289,125
7,21.73,71°
6,58,58,161
+ 63 , 15,549
Note .—For further details see statements III-E and IV-E of statistical part of Irrigation Administrati
C.—Figures for other than Capital Works.
t. w hicti
These may be works for which only revenue accounts are kept, or wor ^
neither capital nor revenue accounts are kept. The former are termed f a nr ; 'pallyin
Works in 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.
(excluding Sind). The receipts on these works are p
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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 1914-15.
The report is divided into two parts. Part I contains a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 169-178). Part II (ff 179-308) comprises chapters I-IX.
Part II is divided into the following chapters, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘CHAPTER I. TRIBUTARY STATES’ (ff 179-186), consisting of: North Gujarat; South Gujarat; North Konkan, Nasik and Khandesh; South Konkan; Deccan; Kolhapur, Southern Maratha Country States and Dharwar; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Condition of the People
- ‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 187-190), consisting of: Survey; Settlements Proper; Waste lands; Wards and other Estates under management of Government
- ‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 191-198), consisting of: Legislative Authority; Course of Legislation; Police; Wild animals and venomous snakes; Chemical Analysis; Criminal Justice; Prisons – Civil and Criminal; Civil Justice; Registration; Local Boards’ Administration; Municipal Administration; Military (Volunteering); Marine; Cooperative Credit Societies
- ‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 199-226), consisting of: Power Industries and Handicrafts; Agriculture; Weather and crops; Horticulture; Forests; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures and Industries; Trade; Public Works; Irrigation; Railways; Tramways.
- ‘CHAPTER V. FINANCIAL REVIEW’ (ff 227-233), consisting of: General Finance; Mint; Currency; Land Revenue; Irrigation Revenue; Public Works Revenue; Sea Customs; Land Customs; Opium; Salt, Excise; Cotton Duties; Stamps; Income Tax; Forests; Local Funds; Municipal Revenues
- ‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISTICS’ (ff 234-236), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration and Immigration; Medical Relief; Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; Sanitation; Vaccination; Veterinary
- ‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 237-238), consisting of: General System of Public Instruction; Education; Literature and the Press; Literary Societies; Arts and Sciences
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 239), consisting of: Archaeological Survey Party of West India
- ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (f 239v), consisting of: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; Established Church of England; Established Church of Scotland; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 168. In a small number of instances there are discrepancies in the spelling, phrasing or inclusion 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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