‘BOMBAY – 1950-51: A Review of the Administration of the State’

Content

Annual administration report of the State of Bombay, 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 1950-51. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai], in 1953.

The report begins with ‘PART I GENERAL SUMMARY’ (ff 4-10), and ‘PART II’ (ff 10-76) is then divided into the following chapters, which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘CHAPTER I Administration of the Land’ (ff 10-11), consisting of: Land Records; Consolidation of Holdings; City Survey; Court of Wards
• ‘CHAPTER II Law and Justice’ (ff 11-15), consisting of: Bombay Legislature; Course of Legislation; Administration of Justice; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice; Registration; Joint Stock Companies
• ‘CHAPTER III Police and Crime’ (ff 15-19), consisting of: Greater Bombay Police; Juvenile Delinquency; Juvenile Courts; Certified Schools and Remand Homes; Borstal School; Probation and Aftercare; Beggar Problem; Institutions; Visiting Committees; Jails
• ‘CHAPTER IV Civil Supplies’ (ff 19-21), consisting of: Rationing; Concessions to Agriculturists; Sugar Supplies; Gur [jaggery] Control; Bombay Milk Scheme; Central Dairy; Toned Milk; Cloth Control; Yarn Distribution; Coal and Coke; Kerosene Oil; Diesel Oil; Charcoal and Firewood
• ‘CHAPTER V Agriculture, Weather and Crops’ (ff 21-29), consisting of: Weather; Agriculture; Season; Area and Yield of Crops; Outturn of Crops; Condition of Agricultural Population; Agricultural Legislation; Research and Experiments; Reclamation of Alkaline Soils; Crop Breeding; Crop Protection; Seed Supply; Supply of Manure; Horticulture; Agricultural Engineering; Irrigation Facilities; Land Improvement; Food Drive; Agricultural Education; Rural Development; Advances to Cultivators; Protection of Tenant Agriculturists; Development of Khar Lands; Consolidation of Holdings Act; Debt Relief; Bombay Money-Lenders Act
• ‘CHAPTER VI Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science’ (ff 29-31), consisting of: Cattle Breeding; Dairy Development; Sheep Breeding; Poultry Development; Veterinary Assistance; Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• ‘CHAPTER VII Prices and Wages’ (ff 31-34), consisting of: Working Class Cost of Living; Mofussil Labour and Wages; Field or Agricultural Labour; Unskilled Labour; Skilled Labour; Wages in Merged Areas
• ‘CHAPTER VIII Forests’ (ff 34-36), consisting of: Area; Revenue and Expenditure; Exploitation; Forest Industries; Tree Planting; Forest Offences; Parks and Gardens; Kanheri National Park; Government Gardens at Poona [Pune]; Bagwan Training Classes; Advice and Assistance
• ‘CHAPTER IX Co-operation and Sarvodaya’ (ff 36-39), consisting of: Agricultural Credit and Multi-Purpose Societies; District Central Banks; Bombay Provincial Co-operative Bank; Land Mortgage Banks; Non-Agricultural Credit Societies; Urban Banks; Marketing Societies; Agricultural Requisites Supply Societies; Taluka Development Boards; Provincial Co-operative Marketing Society; Co-operative Farming; Lift Irrigation Societies; Crop Protection and Cattle Breeding Societies; Consumers’ Societies; Housing Societies; Co-operative Insurance; Co-operative Training and Education; Sarvodaya Schemes
• ‘CHAPTER X Trade Industries and Fisheries’ (ff 39-44), consisting of: Industries; Assistance to Industries; Mines and Minerals; Pilot Plants and Trading Estates; Technical Training; Research; Commercial Intelligence and Statistics; Stores Purchase; Weights and Measures; Cottage Industries; Hand Spinning and Khadi; Industrial Co-operatives; District Associations; Provincial Association; Industrial Banks; Sales Depots; Research and Experiments; Fisheries; Power Launches; Landing and Marketing Facilities; Refrigeration Facilities; Taraporewala Aquarium; Fish Curing Yards; Assistance to Fishermen; Fishermen’s Co-operative Societies; Fisheries Advisory Committee; Fisheries Schools; Fresh Water Fisheries; Fish Farms; Fish Products
• ‘CHAPTER XI Housing and Labour’ (ff 44-48), consisting of: Organisation; Tenements Constructed; Building Research; Aid to Co-operative Societies; Iron and Steel; Distribution of Cement; Labour; Work Stoppages; Adjudication and Arbitration; Conciliation; Labour Courts; Joint and Works Committees; Decasualisation of Labour; Labour Advisory Board; Standardisation of Wages; Trade Unions; Workers Welfare; Factories; Boiler Inspection and Smoke Nuisance; Workmen’s Compensation Act
• ‘CHAPTER XII State Transport’ (ff 48-49), consisting of: Administration; Taxi Trade; Overloading; Petrol Rationing; Driving Licences; Compulsory Insurance; Taxation of Motor Vehicles; Accidents; Government Transport Service
• ‘CHAPTER XIII Public Works and Irrigation’ (ff 49-51), consisting of: Roads and Buildings; Irrigation Works; Minor Irrigation; Water Supply Schemes; Electricity; Air-Craft and Civil Aviation; Minor Ports
• ‘CHAPTER XIV Education’ (ff 51-55), consisting of: Expenditure; Primary Education; School Buildings; Merged Areas; Basic Education; Secondary Education; University Education; Technical and Industrial Education; Vocational Guidance; Physical Education and Military Training; National Cadet Corps; Social Education; Books and Publication; Royal Asiatic Society (Bombay Branch); Museums; Bombay District Gazetteers; Archives and Ancient Monuments
• ‘CHAPTER XV Backward Classes’ [used to refer to Dalit people officially designated as Scheduled Castes, Adivasi peoples officially designated as Scheduled Tribes, and other socially and economically disadvantaged groups] (ff 55-57), consisting of: Social Problems; Removal of Untouchability; Protection of Devadasis; Education; Hostel Facilities; Economic Aid; Help and Artisans; Assistance to Agriculturists; Housing; Emancipation of Adiwasis [Adivasis] Merged Areas; Legal Aid; Emergency Relief; Harijan [Dalit] Day; the Dangs; Partially Excluded Areas
• ‘CHAPTER XVI Rehabilitation of Displaced Persons’ (ff 57-58), consisting of: Economic Security; Training Centres; Agricultural Colonies; Educational Facilities
• ‘CHAPTER XVII Prohibition and Excise’ (ff 58-60), consisting of: Co-operation from Adjoining States; State Prohibition Board; Sanskar Kendras; Rehabilitation of Prohibition-Affected Persons; Prohibition Offences; Excise Revenue; Prohibition Act; Benefits of Prohibition
• ‘CHAPTER XVIII Health Services’ (ff 60-65), consisting of: Medical Organisation; Vital Statistics; Fight Against Epidemics; Maternity and Child Welfare; Combined Medical and Public Health Units; Sirur Health Unit; Public Health Laboratories; Prevention of Food Adulteration; Medical Relief; Hospitals and Dispensaries; Aid to Mission Hospitals; Ayurvedic and Unani Systems of Medicine; Leprosy Relief; Anti-TB Drive; Combating Typhoid in Bombay; Yellow Fever; Cancer; Hospital for Crippled Children; Blood Transfusion Service; Nutrition; Medical Social Service; Red Cross; Aid to Displaced Persons; Rural Medical Relief; Cottage Hospitals; Village and Centres; Eye Camps; Health of the Industrial Worker; Mental Hospitals [psychiatric hospitals]; Drug Control; Medical Education; Haffkine Institute; Chemical Analyser
• ‘CHAPTER XIX Collection of Revenue and Financial Review’ (ff 65-73), consisting of: Accounts for 1950-51; Receipts; Expenditure; Stamps; Salt and Customs; Bombay Port Trust
• ‘CHAPTER XX Local Self-Government’ (ff 73-76), consisting of: Village Panchayats; Guidance in Administration; Nyaya Panchayats; Water Supply; Municipalities; Water Supply and Drainage Schemes; Municipal Corporations; District Local Boards
• ‘CHAPTER XXI Miscellaneous Departments’ (f 76), consisting of: Printing and Stationery; Town Planning and Valuation.

A table of contents listing the parts, and chapters of the report is on folio 3. The volume includes an appendix (f 77) and a subject index (ff 78-79) with reference to the original pagination.

Extent and format

1 volume (78 folios)

Arrangement

The report contains a table of contents listing headings.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 80; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the volume also contains a printed pagination sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/V/10/327

History of this record

Date(s)

1953 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Annual reports

Places

Bombay State

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