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‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’ [253r] (53/192)
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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1919 - 1920 .] WASTE LANDS LAND BECORDS. 29 Chapter ll.
ADMINISTRATION
District.
1918 - 19 .
OF THE LAND.
1919 - 20 .
Total
culturable
area.
Occupied.
Balance
culturable
waste.
Total
culturable
area.
Occupied.
Balance
culturable
waste.
Central Division.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
Ahmednagar
East Khandesh
West Khandesh ...
Nasik
Poona
Satara
Sholapur
2 , 614,372
1 , 871,487
1 , 593,705
2 , 556,609
1 , 927,429
1 , 426,938
2 , 369,312
2 , 573,970
1 , 804,953
1 , 423,911
2 , 482,777
1 , 913,171
1 , 402,209
2 , 355,989
40,402
66,535
169,794
73,833
14,258
24,278
13,373
2 , 618,435
1 , 871,779
1 , 590,015
2 , 556,130
1 , 927,548
1 , 427,306
2 , 372,152
2 , 571,464
1 , 805,342
1 , 424,370
2 , 482,053
1 , 913,125
1 , 403,772
2 , 35&,580
46,971
66,437
165,645
74,077
14,423
23,534
13 , 572 .
Total ...
14 , 359,852
13 , 956,930
402,473
14 , 363,365
13 , 958,706
404,659
Southern Division.
Belgaum
Bijapur
Dharwar
Kanara
Kolaba
Ratnagiri
1 , 222,685
2 , 223,255
1 , 655,969
383,105
745,864
1 , 610,047
1 , 149,157
2 , 173,715
1 , 604,052
338,884
722,811
1 , 600,879
73,528
49,540
51,917
44,221
23,053
9,168
1 , 222,836
2 , 223,878
1 , 655,655
383,111
745,784
1 , 609,519
1 , 149,886
2 , 174,200
1 , 603,717
338,899
722,810
1 , 600,229
72,950
49,678
51,938
44,212
22,974
9,290
Total ...
7 , 840,925
7 , 589,498
251,427
7 , 840,783
7 , 589,741
251,042
Sind.
Hyderabad
Karachi
Larkana
Sukkur
Thar Parkar
Upper Sind Frontier
Nawabshah
2 , 020,955
1 , 954,540
2 , 071,440
1 , 621,987
4 , 127,212
1 , 181,636
1 , 600,506
1 , 080,687
689.232
1 , 174,978
747.232
2 , 172,652
899,588
1 , 178,267
940,268
1 , 265,308
896,462
874,755
1 , 954,560
282,048
422,239
2 , 024,021
1 , 975,571
2 , 077,350
1 , 622,895
4 , 129,522
1 , 191,214
1 , 609,562
1 , 094,751
737,264
1 , 201,807
778,965
2 , 259,408
923,990
1 , 189,924
929,270
1 , 238,307
875,543
843,930
1 , 870,114
267,224
419,638
Total ...
14 , 578,276
7 , 942,636
6 , 635,640
14 , 630,135
8 , 186,109
6 , 444,026
4.—Land Records.
1 .—Presidency Proper.
1. The Land Records staff was, as of recent years, assisted by large General,
temporary parties of surveyors. Id the Northern Division the measurement of
sub-divisions was drawing to a close and so the staff was not so large as in the
Central Division. In the Southern Division the measurement of sub-division
was completed in the Karnatic districts and the staff disbanded. In the
Konkan districts it is still going on and will take two or three years more. The
Land Records staff supervised the preparation and maintenance of record of
rights and carried out pot hissa and city surveys and survey of inam villages on
minor
triangulation
A surveying technique in which the position of a network of points is determined by creating a series of triangles between them and measuring at least two of the internal angles and one side length.
method both for settlement purposes and for preparation of
record of rights, assisted in settlement work, and kept all survey records
corrected up to date. It was also employed in the maintenance of pot hissa
and city surveys. It is worthy of note that the whole electoral system or at
any rate the preparation of electoral rolls for land holders and for house
occupiers rests on the work of the Land Records Department. Steps are being
taken to put this branch and its work on a permanent and accurate footing.
2. No junior Civilian or Probationary Deputy Collector was due for Training classes,
survey training. No class was held in the Northern Division for training
ordinary circle inspectors. Instead, classes were opened at Ahmedabad and
Thana to train new men in pot hissa survey work and to instruct Special
Measurer Circle Inspectors and General Duty Circle Inspectors in theodolite
work and survey of villages on the minor
triangulation
A surveying technique in which the position of a network of points is determined by creating a series of triangles between them and measuring at least two of the internal angles and one side length.
system. In the Central
Division a class was opened at Satara consisting of 10 Measurer Circle
Inspectors and probationers for upper branch of subordinate revenue service,
hree record keepers of district survey offices, one clerk from the office of the
uperintendent of Land Records and 3 karkuns from Native States in the
outhern Maratha Country. They were first given a theoretical course in
survey and then put independently on survey work in some villages of Satara
^ measuring pot hissas. They measured 1,456 actual pot hissas which were
tested by the Superintendent of Land Records. All did the survey work fairly
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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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