‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1920-21’ [‎323r] (1/220)

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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 1920-21. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1922.

The report is divided into two parts. Part I comprises a report ‘GENERAL SUMMARY’ (ff 327-333).

PART II (ff 334-430) comprises the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘CHAPTER I. – PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL. TRIBUTARY STATES.’ (ff 334-344), 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 345-350), 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. – LAW AND JUSTICE.’ (ff 351-356), consisting of: 1. Course of Legislation; 2. Criminal Justice; 3. (a). Civil Justice (b) Execution of Civil Court Decrees by the Revenue Department; 4. Registration
• ‘CHAPTER IV. – POLICE AND CRIME.’ (ff 356-359), consisting of: 1. Police; 2. Prisons – Civil and Criminal; 3. Criminal Tribes
• ‘CHAPTER V. – AGRICULTURE, WEATHER AND CROPS, ETC.’ (ff 359-371), consisting of: I. Agriculture; 2. Weather and Crops; 3. Co-operative Societies; 4. Horticulture; 5. Forests; 6. Mines and Quarries
• ‘CHAPTER VI. – TRADE AND COMMERCE.’ (ff 372-384), consisting of: 1. Power Industries and Handicrafts; 2. Trade; 3. Marine; 4. Labour Bureau
• ‘CHAPTER VII. – PUBLIC WORKS. (ff 385-408), consisting of: (a) Administration; (b) Roads and Buildings; (c) Irrigation; 1. Public Works; Railways; 3. Tramways
• ‘CHAPTER VIII. – VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL RELIEF.’ (ff 408-412), 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 [people affected by leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease] Asylum, Matunga; 8. Sanitation; 9. Vaccination; 10. Chemical Analysis; 11. Wild Animals and Venomous Snakes; 12. Veterinary
• ‘CHAPTER IX. – LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.’ (ff 413-417), consisting of: 1. Local Board Administration; 2. Municipal Administration; 3. Bombay Improvement Trust; 4. Port Trusts; 5. Rent Acts
• ‘CHAPTER X. – FINANCIAL.’ (ff 418-424), consisting of: 1. Financial Review, 1920-21; 2. Land Revenue; 3. Irrigation Revenue; 4. Public Works Revenue; 5. Customs; 6. Salt; 7. Excise; 8. Cotton Duties Act; 9. Stamps; 10. Taxes on Income; 11. Local Funds
• ‘CHAPTER XI. INSTRUCTION.’ (ff 425-426), consisting of: 1. Education; 2. Literature and the Press; 3. Arts and Sciences
• ‘CHAPTER XII. ARCHEAOLOGY.’ (f 427), consisting of: Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle
• ‘CHAPTER XIII. – MISCELLANEOUS.’ (ff 428-430), 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 325. The report also includes the following photographs:

• ‘11 – Holkar’s Bridge Water Works, Kirkee [Khadki]. EMERGENCY WATER WORKS – 1919. Setting and Coagulating Tanks and Rapid Filters . Capacity 1 Million Gallons Daily’ (f 382)
• ‘12 – General View of the Gangasagar Tank and Pumping Station.’ (f 383)
• ‘13 – Oil Engines at Gangasagar.’ (f 383)
• ‘14 – View showing mixing Channel masonry service reservoir and C.I. Tanks.’ (f 384)
• ‘15 – View showing 8” rising main automatic arrangement and Chemical Storage Tank at the Chlorinating Plant.’ (f 384)
• ‘1 – Honorary 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. Magistrates Court, Girgaon, Bombay. (Work in Progress) ’ (f 386)
• ‘2 – Out-Patients Department, Sir J. J. Hospital, Bombay. (Work in Progress) ’ (f 386a)
• ‘3 – Bungalow for Private and Military Secretaries to H. E. the Governor of Bombay’ (f 388)
• ‘4 – George V Hall in the Gujarat College at Ahmedabad.’ (f 389)
• ‘16 – Offices of the Development Directorate of Bombay.’ (f 391)
• ‘17 – Staff Quarters. David Sassoon Industrial and Reformatory Institution at Matunga.’ (f 392)
• ‘18 – Police Accommodation Scheme in Bombay. Quarters for 3 European Officers and 6 Indian Sub-Inspectors on Sandhurst Road (East.)’ (f 394)
• ‘19 – Bungalow for the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, in No. 1A. Queen’s Garden, Poona [Pune]. NORTH EAST VIEW.’ (f 395)
• ‘10 – Bungalows at Karachi for the Superintending Engineers, Indus Right and Left Bank Divisions.’ (f 396)
• ‘20 – Bungalow for the Inspector General of Police, 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. at Yeravda [Yerwada or Yerawada], Poona. NORTH WEST VIEW.’ (f 397)
• ‘5 Causeway at Gurlhosur.’ (f 398)
• ‘6 – Causeway at Manoli.’ (f 399)
• ‘7 – Causeway at Kolhar.’ (f 400)
• ‘8 – Causeway at Kamatagi.’ (f 401)
• ‘9 – Causeway at Anagwadi’ (f 402)
• ‘21 – Bridge over the River Ghod at Kalamb, in Mile No. 41, on Poona Nasik [or Nashik] Road. SOUTH EAST VIEW.’ (f 402a).

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folio 326. 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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