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‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’

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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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BOMBAY ABMINISTKATION BEPORT.
The greatest quantity of wheat ever exported from Karachi ia on
28J- million cwts., in 1904-05, while the greatest value was Bs
recorded in 1917-18. In the year under report exports totalled no ™ Crore8
1,10,000 cwts. of the value of Its. 11*46 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees against 8,202 544 tllai1
Rs. 5*74 crores in the previous year. Tea declined by mim
quantity and by Es. 10 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees in value and tobacco by 4,76 807 lbs ^
and by Rs. 1*29 lakh One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees in value. Export under class II (Raw makrT^
'produce and articles mainly unmanufactured) rose by Rs. 83 B 99 pu
Rs. 525 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to Rs. 1,857 Idkhs, chiefly on account of large shipment f
hides and shinSj seeds and raw cotton. Rato hides and shins " ' 0 ^ !
234,553 cwts. in quantity and Rs. 287*44 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees in value owing to rem '
restrictions, freight facilities and the world shortage of supplies If
military consumption. Seeds rose froml,845,000 cwts.valuedatBsr“I°
htkhs to 3,998,421 cwts. valued at Rs. 501*79 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . Raw cotton
15,570 cwts. valued at Rs. 11*21 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to 312,139 cwts. valued at Bs igS
lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . Miscellaneous rose by Es. 15*82 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . On the other hand there w
a decrease of Rs. 3*82 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees under metallic ores and scrap metal for re-mmuh
tare. The value of the total exports under class III (Articles ivholk
mainly manufactured, fell from Rs. 66*85 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to Rs. 49*22 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees owipto
smaller shipments of saltpetre and shinsj tanned or dressed.
5. The trade with the British Empire, including Egypt, was Bs. 201
crores or 57*74 per cent, of the entire foreign trade as compared with nearl?
Rs. 25 crores or 75*98 per cent, in the previous year, the decrease being due
to the fact that there were no exports of grain to Egypt during the year under
report. The United Kingdom again headed the list with 54*53 percent
Imports and exports both increased, the former, from Rs. 8*14 crores to
Rs. 10*72 crores, chiefly owing to larger arrivals of cotton piece-goods and metals,
and the latter from Rs. 5*92 crores to Rs. 8*5 crores as a result of larger ship
ments of cotton seed, rape-seed, raw hides and skins, raw cotton and raw wool,
Trade under other British possessions rose from. Rs. 23*97 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to Bs. 50*61
lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . This was due to arrivals of wheat from Australia. The removal ol
restrictions led to an increase in the share of Europe, which advanced from
3*75 per cent, to 12*53 per cent, of the total trade. The value of imports from
France rose from Rs. 5*69 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to Rs. 8*75 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees and exports thither increased
by nearly Es. 29 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . The shares of Spain and Italy rose from Bs. 3*26
lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees and Es. 23 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to Es. 38*85 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees and. Rs. 71*85 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees , respectively.
America’s share expanded from 4*29 per cent, to 13*4 per cent.
6. The value of the trade on Government account rose from Bs. I'l
crore Equivalent to ten million, or one hundred lakhs. Used especially in connection with money (rupees). to Rs. 4*46 crores. The increase of Rs. 2*5 crores under imports was
chiefly due to larger imports of machinery and millworh, metals and ores and
railway plant and rolling stoch from the United Kingdom. Exports rose from
Rs. 4 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees to Rs. 52 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees and re-exports from Rs. 97,000 to Rs. 15*68 lakns.
7. The number of vessels engaged in foreign trade, excluding Ooveni
ment transports, that entered the port of Karachi, fell from 1,083 to 619
their tonnage from 870,217 to 581,429. The number engaged in the coasting
trade fell from 3,504 to 2,926, but the tonnage increased from 6/3,On
763,187. The number of steamships entering decreased from 662 to o
which 517 were British and 25 were British Indian.
(ii) Coasting Trade.
The value of the coasting trade, excluding Government h’ansactiok
increased from Rs. 13*8 crores to Rs. 21*7 crores or by hs. < J ® u'
Imports of Indian produce rose by Rs. 3* 56 crores from
Rs. 9 7 crores due to larger receipts of cotton grey piece-goods (hs* ^
cotton coloured ‘ ' * “ 7 nmrn
lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees ), rice
lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees ), cocoanut ....
timber (Rs. 13*10 lakhsR The value of Indian produce ^
crores or nearly double that of the previous year, the chief contp u ^ r ^ 0 f
increase being raw cotton (Es. 308 lakh One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees ^'afld^ii^ Rs. 78 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees . ag
raw cotton to Bombay amounted to 881 , 135 'cwts; valued at Rs. om

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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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Reference: IOR/V/10/316/4
Title: ‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1919-20’
Pages: 227r:322v
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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