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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
'''''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency'''''<br>
'''''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency'''''<br>
All volumes are from Archive.org, except Volume 7
All volumes are from Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay13enthgoog#page/n9/mode/1up Volume 1, Part 1, History of Gujarat] 1896
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay13enthgoog#page/n9/mode/1up Volume 1, Part 1, History of Gujarat] 1896
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay14enthgoog#page/n8/mode/1up Volume 1, Part 2, History of the Konkan, Dakhan and Southern Maratha Country] 1896
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay14enthgoog#page/n8/mode/1up Volume 1, Part 2, History of the Konkan, Dakhan and Southern Maratha Country] 1896
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:''Life in Western India'' by Mrs Guthrie published 1881 [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin00guthgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin01guthgoog Volume II] Archive.org
:''Life in Western India'' by Mrs Guthrie published 1881 [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin00guthgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lifeinwesternin01guthgoog Volume II] Archive.org
:The author is stated to be Katharine [or more accurately Katherine] Blanche Guthrie. It appears she was staying in India with her daughter Margaret and her daughter's husband, Major William Augustus Gillespie,<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/historyoforigina02whit#page/155/mode/1up Page 155] ''An history of the original Parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe, to which is subjoined an account of the Parish of Cartmell, Volume 2'',  4th ed. rev. and enl. by Thomas Whitaker 1876 Archive.org.</ref>  Staff Corps, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (for Musketry), Belgaum.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Tw8LAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA414 Page 414] ''The India List Civil and Military January 1876'' Google Books.</ref>
:The author is stated to be Katharine [or more accurately Katherine] Blanche Guthrie. It appears she was staying in India with her daughter Margaret and her daughter's husband, Major William Augustus Gillespie,<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/historyoforigina02whit#page/155/mode/1up Page 155] ''An history of the original Parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe, to which is subjoined an account of the Parish of Cartmell, Volume 2'',  4th ed. rev. and enl. by Thomas Whitaker 1876 Archive.org.</ref>  Staff Corps, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (for Musketry), Belgaum.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Tw8LAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA414 Page 414] ''The India List Civil and Military January 1876'' Google Books.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofbo00coxerich/page/n6  ''A Short History of the Bombay Presidency''] by Edmund C Cox, Bombay District Police 1887 Archive.org. Also see [[Police]].
*The following volumes are available  online, see [[Directories online#The Times of India Directory| Directories online - The Times of India Directory]]
*The following volumes are available  online, see [[Directories online#The Times of India Directory| Directories online - The Times of India Directory]]
**''The Times of India Calendar and Directory for 1907''. Contains information  for India generally. Contents, digital page 51
**''The Times of India Calendar and Directory for 1907''. Contains information  for India generally. Contents, digital page 51

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An administrative subdivision of British India. The Bombay Presidency covered much of western and central India, as well as parts of Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula.

See Presidencies in the Beginners' Guide.

Maps

External Links

Historical books online

Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency
All volumes are from Archive.org.

Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series 1908

Other

  • A Gazetteer of the Province of Sind by AW Hughes 1876 Archive.org
  • The following volumes were originally available on the Digital Library of India website, now with mirror editions on Archive.org: Gazetteer of the Province of Sind by EH Aitken 1907. Archive.org version. This publication contains matters of a permanent character and general interest. ('A' volume) There are also additional 'B' volumes (probably seven) containing statistical tables and matters of local interest, published in 1919 and 1926-1928.
Volume I- Karachi District 1919 Archive.org; Volume II- Hyderabad District, 1927 Archive.org version; Volume III -Sukkur District 1919 Archive.org version; 1928 Archive.org version; Volume IV- Larkana District, 1927 Archive.org version; Volume V- Nawabshah District 1926 Archive.org version; Volume VI-Thar and Parkar District 1919 Archive.org version. (Not available online: B Volume VII Upper Sind Frontier District, but it is available at the British Library IOR/V/27/63/110).
The Illustrations Archive.org, HathiTrust Digital Library version with rotatable pages
Illustrations of the Rock-cut Temples of India. Text to Accompany the Folio Volume of Plates by James Fergussson 1845 Archive.org
Life in Western India by Mrs Guthrie published 1881 Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
The author is stated to be Katharine [or more accurately Katherine] Blanche Guthrie. It appears she was staying in India with her daughter Margaret and her daughter's husband, Major William Augustus Gillespie,[1] Staff Corps, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (for Musketry), Belgaum.[2]

Fiction

References

  1. Page 155 An history of the original Parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe, to which is subjoined an account of the Parish of Cartmell, Volume 2, 4th ed. rev. and enl. by Thomas Whitaker 1876 Archive.org.
  2. Page 414 The India List Civil and Military January 1876 Google Books.