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‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’ [237r] (21/192)
The record is made up of 1 item (95 folios). It was created in 1921. 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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HBIMIHI
1919-1920.] GENERAL SUMMARY.
been raised to 1st grade. To suit the convenience of candidates for the
h.A. degree, it was decided to hold B.A. examination in Poona, Karachi and
Abmedabad as well as in Bombay.
(c) The Government Law School continues to draw large numbers of
students, there having been an increase of 149 during the year. The numbers
however, at the College of Engineering and the College of Commerce and
Economics decreased. The Secondary Training College, Bombay, is to be
moved to Poona and accommodation for 150 students is contemplated. It has
also been decided to establish a new Medical School at Dharwar.
(d) Technical and industrial education is gradually being systematised on
a sound basis under the supervision of the Committee of Direction. A full
time Inspector has been appointed and Government grants are being increased.
The Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Bombay, again had a successful year
but the Technical Institute in Ahmedabad did not attract as many pupils as
heretofore. The number of students at the Sir J. J. School at Art decreased
by 46 to 325. The new Principal has submitted proposals for the development
of the school. Expenditure on technical and industrial education increased by
about Rs. 37,000. An officer of the Indian Educational Service is at present
in England studying the subject with a view to further reforms.
(e) Secondary schools for boys and girls increased by 7 and the number of
teachers by 51. There were 606 more students residing in hostels than in the
previous year in spite of the fact that prices are still very high. The Boy
Scout Movement has not yet been formally introduced into secondary schools
but it is intended to start it on a large scale this year. Moral instruction is
given in Government schools for one period a week.
(/) There was an increase of 746 in the number of primary schools for
boys and girls and of 58,000 pupils attending school, the increase in girl-pupils
being 2 per cent, greater than that in boys. The expenditure on primary
education increased by Bs. 22
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
. There were also 800 more teachers, of
whom 40 per cent, were trained. The School Committee system did not work
satisfactorily.
(g) Though the number of girls under instruction was small, the number
of girls’ schools, both primary and secondary, is increasing more rapidly than
that of boys’ schools. The increase in expenditure on girls’ education was
about Rs. 5J
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
, and the number of public institutions increased by 153, the
numbers attending schools, both public and private, being 12,000 in excess of
the previous year. There are many indications too that parents and girls alike
appreciate the efforts that are being made in the schools to provide a wider
form of education for the girlhood of India.
(h) The number of Mahomedans in schools rose by 21,558. Various
efforts were made, both by Government and by private individuals or
associations, to assist the education of Mahomedans and preferential treatment
was given to them in many ways. The Mulla Schools in Sind have proved
successful, the grants to them amounting to about Rs.
lakh
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
. Special additional
grants of something over Rs. l^
lakh
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
were made for Mahomedan education
during the year, and an Arts College for Mahomedans is contemplated.
(i) A recurring allotment of Rs. 1
lakh
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
for the education of backward
classes was sanctioned. The numbers of children of the backward classes
belonging to the aboriginal and hill tribes in attendance at school decreased by
nearly 2,000. It is probable that this decrease was due to high prices and the
consequent necessity for earning wages, and also to the greater demand for
labour. For similar reasons the number of children of the depressed classes
attending schools decreased by 4,000. It is difficult to secure teachers for
these schools, especially in Sind and the Southern Division. The numbers of
children of the criminal tribes attending school increased by about 2,000, partly
owing to the opening of nine new schools.
16. Finance.— A striking feature of the year’s finance, viewed generally,
18 that while a deficit of between 13 and 14
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
was budgetted for, there
actually resulted ,a surplus of three
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
; and that, too, though the actual
expenditure of 11,22
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
exceeded the budget estimate by 70
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
. The
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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 1919-20. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1921.
The report is divided into two parts. Part I comprises a report ‘GENERAL SUMMARY’ (ff 231-238).
PART II (ff 239-322) comprises the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘CHAPTER I. – PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL. TRIBUTARY STATES.’ (ff 239-249), consisting of: I. North Gujarat; II. South Gujarat; III. North Konkan; IV. South Konkan; V. The Deccan; VI. Kolhapur and Southern Maratha Country States; VII. Sind [Sindh]; VIII. Aden; IX. Condition of the People
- ‘CHAPTER II. – ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.’ (ff 250-256), consisting of: 1. Surveys; 2. Settlements; 3. Waste Lands; 4. Land Records; 5. Wards’ and other Estates; 6. Revenue and Rent-paying Classes
- ‘CHAPTER III. – PROTECTION.’ (ff 256-269), 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. Criminal Tribes; 9. Registration; 10. Local Board Administration; 11. Municipal Administration; 12. Rent Acts; 13. Indian Reforms Scheme; 14. Military (Indian Defence Force); 15. Marine
- ‘CHAPTER IV. – PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 270-304), consisting of: 1. Agriculture; 2. Weather and Crops; 3. Co-operative Societies; 4. Horticulture; 5. Forests; 6. Mines and Quarries; 7. Power Industries and Handicrafts; 8. Trade; 9. Public Works; 10. Railways; 11. Tramways
- ‘CHAPTER V. – FINANCIAL REVIEW.’ (ff 305-314), consisting of: 1. Financial Review, 1919-20; 2. Land Revenue; 3. Irrigation Revenue; 4. Public Works Revenue; 5. Customs; 6. Salt; 7. Excise; 8. Cotton Duties Act; 9. Stamps; 10. Income Tax; 11. Local Funds
- ‘CHAPTER VI. – VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF.’ (ff 314-318), consisting of: 1. Births and Deaths; 2. Emigration and Immigration; 3. Medical Relief; 4. Epidemic Diseases; 5. The Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory; 6. Lunatic Asylums [psychiatric hospitals]; 7. Acworth Leper Asylum [hospital for people affected by leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease], Matunga; 8. Sanitation; 9. Vaccination; 10. Veterinary
- ‘CHAPTER VII. – INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 318-320), consisting of: 1. Education; 2. Literature and the Press; 3. Arts and Sciences
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. – ARCHEAOLOGY.’ (f 321), consisting of: Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle
- ‘CHAPTER IX. – MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 321-322), consisting of: 1. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction; 2. Stationary; 3. Printing; 4. General Miscellaneous.
There is a map 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. on folio 229. The report also includes the following photographs:
- ‘RESIDENCY SCHOOL. Crater, Aden.’ (f 292)
- ‘POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE SHOLAPUR [Solapur].’ (f 243)
- ‘HOSTEL BUILDING FOR THE NORTHCOTE HIGH SCHOOL SHOLAPUR.’ (f 245)
- ‘BUNGALOW FOR THE SANITARY ENGINEER TO GOVERNMENT, YERAVDA [Yerwada or Yerawada]. (North West Elevation).’ (297).
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 230. 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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- ‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’
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