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'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1878-79’ [127r] (258/759)
The record is made up of 1 volume (436 folios). It was created in 1879. 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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The total number of prisons in this
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.
during the year Number,
1878 was 125, classified as shown
in the margin. There has been
an addition of an extramural gang
at Ashti; and 26 places of con
finement, many of which had been
merely constituted subordinate jails
temporarily, in order to relieve the
pressure upon the regular prisons
during 1877, were, during the year
under report, again converted into lock-ups, and no longer classed
under the heading of subordinate jails. The number of the latter
class of institutions is still 20 above what it was in 1876. Two
of the district jails have juvenile prisons attached to them, and
the Sassoon Reformatory in Bombay receives convicts below
the age of 16 who cannot conveniently be sent either to Poona or
Shikarpur. The extramural gangs were at work at Nara in Sind,
Gokak in Belganm, and for part of the year at Ashti in Sholapur,
and Nira in the Poona District.
The number of persons confined, as given in Appendix III, Prisoners.
D (1), was 57,336, as compared with 61,309 in 1877. Of these,
however, 3,915 were persons under trial, leaving 53,421 actual
convicts, including 5,707 received by transfer. The number of
admissions was 34,860, or 17* per cent less than last year, but
still 76* per cent in excess of the average of the three years
preceding 1877. The year 1878 opened with an aggregate of
12,854 convicts in jail against 9,426 at the beginning of 1877,
or an increase of 3,428 persons. The increased length of the
sentences of imprisonment passed during 1878, combined with
the large balance remaining at the end of 1877, tended to raise the
daily average number confined from 11,718 to 12,946, the slight
decrease in subordinate jails, owing to the abolition of so many of
those institutions, being insufficient to counterbalance the causes
above specified, which were operative in the district jails. There
were 12,081 convicts and 238 prisoners under trial remaining at
the end of the year, whilst on the corresponding date in 1877 the
numbers were respectively 12,888 and 293. Taking convicted
prisoners alone, the daily average throughout the year rose from
11,411 to 12,752, or 11*74 percent.
The variations in the number of admissions in the different
parts of the
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.
accompany, for the most part, those in the
price of food. In the Deccan and Western Karnatic, where the
increase last year was most marked, the price of food, though
b 385—19
Prison.
Number in
1877.
1878.
Central Jail
1
1
District Jails
23
23
Subordinate Jails...
123
97
Extramural Gangs .
3
4
Total ...
150
125
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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 1878-79. The report was printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay [Mumbai] in 1879.
The report is divided into three parts. Part I comprises a report ‘SUMMARY’ (ff 9-53). Part II (ff 54-265) comprises chapters I-IX. Part III comprises ‘Statistical Returns’ pertaining to chapters I-VII and IX (ff 266-435).
Part II comprises the following:
- ‘CHAPTER I. POLITICAL. Tributary States’ (ff 55-83), consisting of: Gujarát [Gujarat] States; Southern Gujarát; Marátha [Maratha] States; Southern Marátha States; Sind [Sindh] State; Aden
- ‘CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND’ (ff 84-114), consisting of: Civil Divisions; Surveys; and Settlements; Waste Lands; and Government Estates, Wards’ Estates
- ‘CHAPTER III. PROTECTION’ (ff 115-145), consisting of: Course of Legislation; Police; Criminal Justice; Prisons; Civil Justice; Registration; Municipal Administration; Military; Marine
- ‘CHAPTER IV. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION’ (ff 145-198), consisting of: Agriculture; Weather and Crops; Horticulture; Forest; Mines and Quarries; Manufactures; Trade; Public Works; Irrigation. Folio 151 comprises a table of graphs showing ‘Abnormal variations of the meteorological elements in 1878’
- ‘CHAPTER V. REVENUE AND FINANCE’ (ff 199-236), consisting of: Imperial Revenue and Finance; Land Revenue; Canal Revenue; Sources of Imperial Revenue other than Land; Revenue and Finance other than Imperial
- ‘CHAPTER VI. VITAL STATISTICS AND MEDICAL SERVICES’ (ff 236-246), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Emigration; Medical Relief; Sanitation; Vaccination
- ‘CHAPTER VII. INSTRUCTION’ (ff 247-261), consisting of: Education; Literature and the Press; Arts and Sciences
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. ARCHAEOLOGY’ (f 262)
- ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS’ (ff 263-265), consisting of: Ecclesiastical; Stationery; General Miscellaneous.
A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-8. 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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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 438; 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: A printed pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-435.
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