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'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1904-1905' [134r] (43/116)
The record is made up of 1 item (58 folios). It was created in 1905. 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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ADMINISTRA
TION OF THE
LAND.
]. This staff was at work in all the districts of 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.
Proper and in addition to Genera1 *
then* ordinary inspection duties proceeded with the training of Village Accountants and the
preparation of the Record of Rights*
2. Central survey classes for training newly appointed Circle Inspectors in survey work Training classes,
were opened at the head-quarter towns of each of the three divisions. After receiving
instruction at the head-quarter towns, the Circle Inspectors were taken for practice into
the districts where survey work was being done. The training was given by the permanent
surveyors attached to each division under the supervision of the Superintendents, Land Records
and Registration. Luring the year 85 Circle Inspectors attended the classes, of whom 74
passed the survey examination.
The District Inspectors and Superintendents^ Land Records and Registration, performed
their usual duties of inspection and supervision of the work of Village Accountants and Circle
Inspectors and of training them in survey. Owing to the unfavourable nature of the season in
some districts the classes for Village Accountants had to be abandoned in some talukas. The
Superintendent, Land Records and Registration, Central Division, also conducted the class of
Junior Civilians in survey.
3. The preparation of the Record of Rights was newly started in this year in the Northern Record of RigMs*
Division only in 3 talukas of the Surat District. In the other districts of that division the
work was either postponed owing to the unfavourable season or was continued in the same
talukas in which it was started in 1903-1904 but not finished. In the Central Division it was
newly started in 12 talukas and continued from the last year in two t^lukas and in the
Southern Division it was newly started in 10 talukas and continued in 7. The record wa;
prepared by Village Accountants and checked by Circle Inspectors, District Inspectors,
M4mlatdars and Sub-Divisional Officers. The Superintendents, Land Records and Registration,
visited as many talukas as practicable and exercised a general supervision over the work.
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4. Waste Lands.
The following table shows the variations in the area of land under cultivation in the past
two years
1903-1901,
1901-1905.
District.
Total culturable
area.
Occupied.
Balance cultur
able waste.
Cotalculturable
area.
Occupied.
lalance cultur
able waste.
Northern Division.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres,
Acres.
AhmadaMd
Kaira ...
Ranch Mahals
Broach
Surat
Thana ...
• • •
«*• •••
1,529,501
546,343
552,678
498,926
712,948
1,005,022
1,380,681
420,746
440,920
455,475
652,064
888,625
148,821
126,597
111,758
43,451
60,884
116,397
1,524,864
537,892
551,362
499,159
712,020
1,001,746
1,387,712
421,880
442,925
457,100
649,561
889,391
137,152
116,012
108,437
42,059
62,459
112,355
Total ...
4,845,418
4,238,511
606,908
4,827,043
4,248,569
578,474
Central Division.
A hmednagar
Kh&ndesh ...
Nasik ...
Poona
Satara ...
Sholapur
2,603,921
3,676,452
2,186,658
2,503,762
1,425,558
2,477,325
2,555,015
2,914,551
2,041,713
1,791,710
1,493,766
2,464,987
48,907
761,901
144,945
712,052
21,791
12,338
2,602,603
3,625,548
2,186,857
2,505,141
1,423,340
, 2,476,320
2,564,152
3,052,844
2,032,450
1,787,555
1,400,696
2,468,928
48,453
572,704
154,407
717,586
22,644
12,392
Total ...
14,873,676
13,261,742
1,701,924
14,819,809
13,291,625
1,528,186
Southern Division.
Belgaum ...
Bijapur ,,,
Dhamvar
Kanara ...
KoUba
Ratnagiri
1,240,045
2,198,810
1,651,144
386,067
756,421
1,604,497
1,168,484
2,138,522
1,593,300
336,191
720,705
1,591,681
71,561
60,288
57,844
49,876
34,656
12,816
1,240,004
2,198,812
1,651,654
384,372
755,466
1,610,425
1,165,843
2,140,679
1,589,513
335,638
720,496
1,597,827
74,161
58,133
62,141
48,734
39,969
12,598
Total ...
7,835,984
7,548,943
287,041
7,840,732
7,549,996
290,736
Sind.
Hyderabad
Kar&chi
L&rkhdna ...
Sukkur ...
Thar and Parkar ..
Upper Sind Frontier
3,617,625
1,805,215
2,042,712
1,741,908
3,358,768
1,206,913
1,790,137
606,214
1,110,692
707,727
2,053,724
852,097
1,727,488
1,199,001
932,02)
1,037,181
1,305,044
354,816
3,539,094
1,792,603
2,043,848
1,746,749
3,355,309
1,207,191
1,860,693
590,996
1,080,597
707,715
2,065,692
845,839
1,688,401
1,201,607
983,251
1,039,034
1,289,617
361,352
Total ...
13,676,141
7,120,591
6,555,550
13,684,794
7,141,532
6,543,262
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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 1904-05. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai] in 1905.
The report is divided into two parts. Part I contains a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 116-124). Part II comprises chapters I-IX (ff 69-112).
PART II comprises the following:
- ‘CHAPTER I. TRIBUTARY STATES’ (ff 125-132), consisting of: I. North Gujarát; II. South Gujarát; III. North Konkan; IV. South Konkan; V. The Deccan; VI. Southern Mahratta Country States; VII. Sind [Sindh]; VIII. Aden
- ‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 132-135), consisting of: 1. Realization of Land Revenue; 2. Surveys; 3. Settlements; 4. Waste Lands; 5. Wards and Other Estates; 6. Revenue and Rent-paying Classes
- ‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 135-142), consisting of: 1. Course of Legislation; 2. Police; 3. Wild Animals and Venomous Snakes; 4. Chemical Analysis; 5. Criminal Justice; 6. Prisons – Civil and Criminal; 7. Civil Justice; 8. Registration; 9. Local Board Administration; 10. Municipal Administration; 11. Military (Volunteering); 12. Marine; 13 Co-operative Credit Societies
- ‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 142-159), consisting of: 1. Agriculture; 2. Weather and Crops; 3. Horticulture; 4. Forests; 5. Mines and Quarries; 6. Manufactures and Industries; 7. Trade; 8. Public Works; 9. Irrigation; 10. Railways; 11. Tramways
- ‘CHAPTER V. FINANCIAL REVIEW’ (ff 159-165), consisting of: 1. Financial Review, 1904-05; 2. Mint; 3. Currency; 4. Land Revenue; 5. Irrigation Revenue; 6. Public Works Revenue; 7. Customs; 8. Opium; 9. Salt; 10. Excise; 11. Cotton Duties Act; 12. Stamps; 13. Income Tax; 14. Forests; 15. Local Funds; 16. Municipal Revenue
- ‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISITICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF’ (ff 166-167), consisting of: 1. Births and Deaths; 2. Emigration and Immigration; 3. Medical Relief; 4. Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; 5. Sanitation; 6. Vaccination; 7. Veterinary
- ‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 168-169), consisting of: 1. Education; 2. Literature and the Press; 3. Arts and Sciences
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 170)
- ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (f 170), consisting of: 1. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; 2. Stationery; 3. General Miscellaneous.
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 115. 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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