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An adminsitrative subdivision of [[British India]]. The Bombay Presidency covered much of western and central India, as well as parts of [[Pakistan]] and the Arabian Peninsula.
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]].
See [[Presidencies]] in the [[Beginners' Guide]].


== External Links ==
== Maps==
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V2nGnWXV7coC&pg=PA6&dq=The+history+of+British+India:+a+chronology%2BBombay%2BPresidency%2B1756&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false Bombay Presidency 1608-1756] Google Books<br>
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra131-s27 1850 Map of the Diocese of Bombay] ''The Colonial Church Atlas 3rd Edition 1850''.  National Library of Australia Digital Collections-Maps  [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3667318 Catalogue entry]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_Presidency Bombay Presidency] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/pager.php?object=45 1931: Bombay Presidency northern section] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Bombay_Presidency Bombay Presidency] www.1911encyclopedia.org<br>
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.php?object=46 1931: Bombay Presidency southern section] Imperial Gazetteer


===Historical Books Online===
== External links ==
====Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency====
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V2nGnWXV7coC&pg=PA6&dq=The+history+of+British+India:+a+chronology%2BBombay%2BPresidency%2B1756&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false Bombay Presidency 1608-1756] Google Books
All volumes are from Archive.org
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_Presidency Bombay Presidency] Wikipedia
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20110810024140/http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/lstrepr.htm Maharashtra State Gazetteers Department: List of Online Gazetteers] Now an archived website. However, the Gazetteers still are accessible. Many are of editions available below.
===Historical books online===
'''''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency'''''<br>
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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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer03pregoog  Volume 5, Cutch, Palanpur and Mahi Kantha] 1883
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer03pregoog  Volume 5, Cutch, Palanpur and Mahi Kantha] 1883
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer10pregoog  Volume 6 Rewa Kantha, Narukot, Cambay and Surat States] 1880
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer10pregoog  Volume 6 Rewa Kantha, Narukot, Cambay and Surat States] 1880
*Volume 7 Baroda is available at the [[British Library]]
*Volume 7 Baroda 1883 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.537301 Archive.org mirror version 1], or [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280090 Archive.org mirror version 2], originally from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer07pregoog Volume 8 Kathiawar] 1884
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer07pregoog Volume 8 Kathiawar] 1884
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay25enthgoog#page/n7/mode/1up Volume 9 Part 1 Gujarat Population Hindus] 1901
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay25enthgoog#page/n7/mode/1up Volume 9 Part 1 Gujarat Population Hindus] 1901
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer08pregoog#page/n5/mode/1up Volume 14 Thana Places of Interest] 1882
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer08pregoog#page/n5/mode/1up Volume 14 Thana Places of Interest] 1882
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer12pregoog#page/n5/mode/1up Volume 15, Part 1, Kanara] 1883
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer12pregoog#page/n5/mode/1up Volume 15, Part 1, Kanara] 1883
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer09pregoog#page/n5/mode/1up Volume 15, Part 2, Kanera] 1893
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer09pregoog#page/n5/mode/1up Volume 15, Part 2, Kanara] 1893
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924070623651#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 16, Nasik] 1883
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924070623651#page/n5/mode/2up Volume 16, Nasik] 1883
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer14pregoog Volume 17, Ahmadnagar] 1884
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer14pregoog Volume 17, Ahmadnagar] 1884
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay06enthgoog Volume 27 General Index] 1904
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteerbombay06enthgoog Volume 27 General Index] 1904


====Other====
'''''Imperial Gazetteer of India  Provincial Series''''' 1908
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280279  '' Imperial Gazetteer of India  Provincial Series: Bombay Presidency Vol.I'']
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.120371 ''Imperial Gazetteer of India  Provincial Series: Bombay Presidency Vol. II''].  Archive.org,  mirror files originally from  Digital Library of India.
 
'''Other'''
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/agazetteerprovi00unkngoog ''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.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281432  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 [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.30500/page/n5 Archive.org]; Volume II- Hyderabad District,  1927 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281433  Archive.org version]; Volume III -Sukkur District 1919 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34603  Archive.org version];  1928 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105575  Archive.org version]; Volume IV- Larkana District, 1927 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105576  Archive.org version]; Volume V- Nawabshah District 1926 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105577 Archive.org version]; Volume VI-Thar and Parkar District  1919 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105578  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).
*[http://archive.org/stream/britishbeginning00rawlrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''British Beginnings in Western India, 1579-1657: An account of the early days of the British factory of Surat''] by H.G. Rawlinson 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/how-bombay-was-ceded ''How Bombay was Ceded''] by  J H Gense S J, PhD (St. Xavier's College, Bombay)  published c 1939. Archive.org.  The Treaties of 1661 and 1665.
*[https://archive.org/details/ahistorymahratt00warigoog/page/n8 ''A History of the Mahrattas: To which is Prefixed an Historical Sketch of the Decan…''] by Edward Scot Waring 1810 Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TeYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 ''The Road Book of India; or, East Indian traveller's guide through the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay''] by John B Seely, Captain Bombay Army. 1825 Google Books.  Contains many place names.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/itinerarydirecto00clunrich#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Itinerary and directory for Western India, being a collection of routes through the provinces subject to the Presidency of Bombay''] by Captain John Clunes 1826 (archive.org)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/itinerarydirecto00clunrich#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Itinerary and directory for Western India, being a collection of routes through the provinces subject to the Presidency of Bombay''] by Captain John Clunes 1826 (archive.org)
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=htc4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA217 '"On the Statistics of Dukhun [Deccan<nowiki>]</nowiki>: Special Report on the Statistics of the four Collectorates of Dukhun, under the British Government"]: Poona, Ahmednuggur, Candeish or Khandesh, and Dharwar Collectorates page 217 ''Report of the Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science'' 1838 Google Books. Details of plants, animals, birds etc
*''Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire from the Official Records of the Colonial Office'' by  Robert Montgomery Martin 1839 Google Books. ''Book IV- Possessions in Asia'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PvtqMe2cxhoC&pg=PA273 "Chapter I-Hindostan"] pages 273-368
*''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government''.
**This series is available at the British Library IOR/V/23/206-207, 208-330, however currently (2020/02) must be viewed on microfiche. The catalogue entries give details of the titles: [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/5ae0a939-86be-4618-80da-61db707a26d5 IOR/V/23/206-207], 1852-1855, mainly concerned with revenue matters; [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/7611004a-9919-4ba7-90d9-eb7a45198fad IOR/V/23/208-330] 1854-1937. Discovery catalogue details, TNA.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120414080142/http://www.list-of.org.uk/list-of-roman-numerals.htm List of Roman numerals]
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$c178136?urlappend=%3Bseq=7  ''No III Memoir of the Zilla of Baroche''] 1852  HathiTrust Digital Library. This report was originally issued in 1825: [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=f0JAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Memoir of the Zilla of Baroche: Being the Result of a Revenue, Statistical, and Topographical Survey of that Collectorate''] under the direction of Lieutenant -Colonel Monier Williams. 1825 Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_w0_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No I New Series: On the Supply of Water to Bombay''] 1854 Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8Q0_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No. V  New Series:  Report on the Collectorate of Ahmedabad; A short Account of the Chootas''] 1854 Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vQ0_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XII New Series'': Includes ''Memoir On The Mahee Kanta''] 1855  Google Books
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n5/mode/2up  ''No XIV New Series''] 1855. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n7/mode/2up Contents] Part of a digital file with multiple volumes. Archive.org
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wxA_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XVII New Series'':  Multiple topics including ''Memoirs on Shikapoor; Memorandum relative to the trade in indigo, in countries bordering on the Indus; Memoirs on the River Indus; Remarks On The Plants, And Articles Of Cultivation In Sind; Notes Relative To The Population, The Chiefs, etc In That Province; The Pearl Fishery, Sea Fishery, And Salt Beds Of Sind''] 1855 Google Books
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n159/mode/2up  ''No XVIII New Series''] 1855. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n161/mode/2up Contents] Part of a digital file with multiple volumes. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n313/mode/2up  ''No XIX New Series''] 1855. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n315/mode/2up Contents] Part of a digital file with multiple volumes. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n379/mode/2up  ''No XX New Series''] 1855. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n381/mode/2up Contents] Part of a digital file with multiple volumes. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n403/mode/2up  ''No XXI New Series''] 1855. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n405/mode/2up Contents] Part of a digital file with multiple volumes. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n463/mode/2up  ''No XXII New Series''] 1855. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n465/mode/2up Contents] Part of a digital file with multiple volumes. Archive.org
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CBE_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''No XXIII New Series: Sketches of the Native States Under The Political Agency In The Rewa Kanta''] 1856  Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nBA_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XXIV New Series: Historical And Other Information, Connected With The Province Of Oman, Muskat, Bahrein, And Other Places In The Persian Gulf. Etc Includes Measures Adopted By The British Government For The Suppression Of The Slave Trade In The Persian Gulf''] 1856 Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5A0_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XXV New Series: Historical Sketches Of, And Brief Notes Relative To, The Native States of…within the charge of the Political Superintendent Pahlunpoor''] 1856 Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vw4_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XXVI New Series: Rough Notes'' connected with various  Petty States. Includes ''Historical Narrative of the City of Cambay... comprising a brief Sketch of the Province of Guzerat, at various periods'']  1856  Google Books
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n551/mode/2up  ''No XXVII New Series''] 1856, part of a digital file with multiple volumes. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n589/mode/2up  ''No XXVIII New Series''] 1856. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n591/mode/2up Contents] Part of a digital file with multiple volumes. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n657/mode/2up  ''No XXX New Series''] 1856. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102619/page/n659/mode/2up Contents] Part of a digital file with multiple volumes. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.94581/page/n5/mode/2up  2nd file] Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.21511/page/n3/mode/2up ''No XXXVII New Series''] catalogued 1856. ''Historical, Geographical And Statistical Memoirs On The Province Of Kattywar And On The Districts Of Babriawar And Okhamundul : Also A Report On The Iron Of Kattywar''. [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.21511/page/n5/mode/2up Contents] Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20746/page/n3/mode/2up ''No XXXIX New Series, Part I''] 1856  ''Reports On The Resources Of The Districts Of Neriad, Matur, Mondeh, Beejapoor, Dholka, Dundooka, And Gogo, The Tuppa Of Napur, And The Kusba Of Ranpoor, In Guzerat''. [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20746/page/n5/mode/2up Contents]  and [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20676/page/n3/mode/2up  ''No XXXIX New Series, Part II'']  in a separate volume ''Measures Adopted For The Suppression Of Female Infanticide In The Province Of Kattywar''. [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20676/page/n5/mode/2up Contents] Archive.org
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=TKACAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR4 ''No XLI New Series: Memoir on the Satara Territory''] 1857 Google Books
**''No XLIII New Series:  Memoirs'' by Commander James Felix Jones I.N: ''steam-trip to the North of Baghdad in April 1846 with notes on various objects of interest en route : journey for the purpose of determining the tract of the ancient Nahrwan canal undertaken in April 1848 with a glance at the past history of the territory of the Nahrwan : journey to the frontier of Turkey and Persia through a part of Kurdistan : researches in the vicinity of the Median Wall of Xenophon and along the old course of the River Tigris and discovery of the site of the ancient Opis : memoir on the province of Baghdad : notes on the topography of Ninevah and the other cities of Assyria and on the general geography of the country between the Tigris and the upper Zab founded upon a trigonometrical survey made in the year 1852''. Published 1857.
*:[https://archive.org/details/b29353439/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version] lacks title page, and including [https://archive.org/details/b29353439/page/302/mode/2up "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad. 1855"].  Includes coloured images and is a mirror from [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b29353439 Wellcome Library] where pages are rotatable. Also available [http://ediscovery.qnl.qa/islandora/object/QNL%3A00013927  Qatar National Library]  Read online or download. Sometimes there may be difficulty  opening the file. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.15202/page/i/mode/2up Archive.org], mirror from Granth Sanjeevani, Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
*:There was  a 1998 facsimile re-publication with the title ''Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan & Turkish Arabia 1857''  by J. F Jones , Indian Navy. [https://www.archiveeditions.co.uk/titledetails.asp?tid=62 Information about the book].
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20096/page/n3/mode/2up ''No XLV New Series:  Report On The Upper Portion Of The Eastern Narra Its Sources Of Supply'']. [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20096/page/n5/mode/2up Contents] 1857 Archive.org
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-UY9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''No XLIX New  Series: A History:  Arabia Felix Or Yemen, From The Commencement Of The Christian Era To The Present Time; Including An Account Of The British Settlement Of Aden''] 1859 Google Books
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.l0098676208?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''No LIV New Series: Memoir on the Thurr and Parkur districts of Sind, by Captain Stanley Napier Raikes ... 1856 ..''] 1859. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LJFVDQEACAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books] and [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.107872/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org]
**From one digital file, whose title page does not match any of the contents. Archive.org.
***[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n6/mode/1up Uncatalogued pages relating to Railways, appears to be ''No LXXI: New Series''] 1863, commencing page 20. ''Papers relating to the project of connecting Barsee with the Barsee railway station by tramways''.
***[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n47/mode/2up ''No LXXII New Series''] 1863. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n165/mode/2up ''No LXXIII New Series''] 1863.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n211/mode/2up ''No LXXIV New Series''] 1863.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n265/mode/2up ''No LXXV New Series'']  1863.
***[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n281/mode/2up  ''No LXXVI New Series''] 1863. Observations on the Influence of Forests.
***[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n311/mode/2up ''No LXXVII New Series''] 1863. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n331/mode/2up  ''No LXXVIII New Series''] 1863. ''Report on the subject of the Rain-fall in the Dekhan and the Climatic Disturbance apparent during 1861 and 1862''.
***[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n355/mode/2up ''No LXXX New Series:  Report on the Sanitary State of the Island of Bombay''] 1864
***[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n407/mode/2up ''No LXXXI New Series''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n409/mode/2up Index] 1864. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n535/mode/2up ''No LXXXII''] 1864. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92345/page/n611/mode/2up ''No LXXXIV New Series''] 1864 Railway Traffic.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xEY9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XCII New Series: Papers relating to the Constitution and Functions of the Council of his Excellency the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations''] 1865 Google Books
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.14386/page/n5/mode/2up ''No XCVI New Series''] 1866. [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.14386/page/n7/mode/2up Contents] About rates of assessment for the Tanna Collectorate. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n5/mode/2up ''No XCVIII New Series: Annual Report of the Jails in Sind 1864-1865'']  1866 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n163/mode/2up ''No XCIX New Series''] 1866 regarding Lighting Up the Entrance of the Harbour of Bombay.
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n215/mode/2up ''No C New Series''] 1866. Papers relating to Pilotage System of Bombay.
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n263/mode/2up ''No CI New Series Abstract of the Proceedings and Report of the International Sanitary Conference of 1866''] 1867. [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n265/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n395/mode/2up ''No CII New Series''] 1867 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n415/mode/2up ''No CIV New Series  Selected  Minutes of the Honorable Mountstuart Elphinstone  in the Military Department 1820-1827'']. 1867 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n477/mode/2up ''No CV New Series''] 1867. [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n541/mode/2up ''No CVI New Series''] 1867. [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n661/mode/2up ''No CVII New Series''] 1868. [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.19763/page/n855/mode/2up ''No CVIII New Series''] 1868. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107993/page/n3/mode/2up ''No CXVI New Series: Annual Police Report for 1868 Province of Sind''] 1870. Same digital file [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107993/page/n139/mode/2up  1869]  (1871) ''No CXXII New Series''; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107993/page/n309/mode/2up  1870]  (1871) ''No CXXIV New Series''. Archive.org.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1kY9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5  ''No CXXXIV New Series: Khoti Tenure'']  1873 Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=o0c9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''No CLII New Series:  Archaeolgical Survey of Western India: Province of Kachh''] 1879. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnwwei?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Hathi Trust version] where the  book reader enables pages to be rotated.
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21663  ''No CLXXXIX New Series: Account of a trip to Mount Eilo on the northern frontier of the Gadafursi country with a sketch map showing the routes''] by Captain J S King,  Assistant Political Resident, Zaila 1886. Zaila (Zeila)  is a port city in the northwestern Salal region of Somalia. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].
** Search the Internet Archive ([https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php Archive.org]) for individual titles. More online editions appear to be available, including  under individual titles,  at [https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/17705 GIPE Digitised Books] (free) and at [https://granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/ Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani], the latter requires a paid personal or institutional membership to access the contents, however many mirror files have been uploaded to the Internet Archive.
*[https://archive.org/details/b28756885/page/n3/mode/2up ''A comparative view of antient monuments of India, particularly those in the island of Salset near Bombay''] by Richard Gough 1785 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/s6id13658320/page/44/mode/2up "Account of the Caves in Salsette Illustrated with Drawings of the Principal Figures and Caves"] by Henry Salt 25th August 1806, page 44 ''Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay. Volume 1, 1819'' (1877 reprint) Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/s6id13658320/page/214/mode/2up "Account of the Cave-Temple of Elephanta with a Plan and Drawings of the Principal Figures"] by William Erskine November 2, 1813 page 214 ''Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay. Volume 1, 1819'' (1877 reprint) Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/TheWondersOfEloraOrTheNarativeOfJourneyTemplesAndDwellings/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Wonders of Elora or the Narrative of a Journey to  the Temples and Dwellings...at Elora, in the East Indies''] by John B Seely, Captain in the Bombay Native Infantry 1824 Archive.org. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082439104?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 Second Edition, with Considerable Additions and Improvements 1825] HathiTrust Digital Library, with rotatable pages.
:''Illustrations of the Rock-cut Temples of India: selected from the best examples of the different series of caves at Ellora, Ajunta, Cuttack, Salsette, Karli, and Mahavellipore. Drawn on stone by Mr. T. C. Dibdin, from sketches ... made on the spot ... in the years 1838-9'' by James Fergussson 1845
:[https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008543106/page/n3 The Illustrations] Archive.org, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t0bw0ht8p?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 HathiTrust Digital Library version with rotatable pages]
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.151365  ''Illustrations of the Rock-cut Temples of India. Text to Accompany the Folio Volume of Plates''] by James Fergussson 1845 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.14802/page/n3/mode/2up ''Notes on the Rock-cut Temples and Rock-cut Palaces Near Ellora''] by a Recent tourist 1856. With illustrations. Archive.org, mirror from Granth Sanjeevani, Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00137/mode/1up ''Ajanta : a handbook of Ajanta Caves descriptive of the painting and sculpture there in''] by Shrimant Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao 1932.  Archive.org,  Ministry of Culture [India] Collection.
*''Chow-Chow; being selections from a journal kept in India, Egypt and Syria'' by Amelia Cary 1857 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=avhAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3  Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bvhAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP11 Volume II].  The author was the wife of Lord Falkland the Governor of Bombay 1848-1853
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part II Bombay''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part II Bombay''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=N30DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR21 ''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Books
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=N30DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR21 ''Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India''] 1864 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookbombayp00eastgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''Handbook of the Bombay Presidency with an account of Bombay City''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, ("for the most part rewritten") 1881 Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookbombayp00eastgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''Handbook of the Bombay Presidency with an account of Bombay City''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, ("for the most part rewritten") 1881 Archive.org
*The following volumes are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8927/page/n1/mode/2up ''Our Last Years in India''] by Mrs John B Speid 1862. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. The author’s husband was in command of the 2nd Regiment of the Hyderabad Contingent Infantry. She left England 27 October 1858 and the book  appears  to covers the period to 19 May 1861 (although the final date given is 19 May 1859). She also includes an account of the Mutiny at Aurangabad in 1857.
**''The Times of India Directory''
*''My Year in an Indian Fort'' by Mrs Guthrie published 1877 [https://archive.org/details/myyearinindianfo01guthuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/myyearinindianfo02guthuoft  Volume II] Archive.org. The Indian Fort was at Belgaum.
***''The Times of India Calendar and Directory for 1907''. Contains information  for India generally. Contents, computer page 51
:''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 Times of India Directory of Bombay (City and Presidency) Karachi-Poona- Ahmedabad etc. 1932''. Index, computer page 42
: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 Times of India Directory of Bombay (City and Presidency) Karachi-Poona- Ahmedabad etc. 1935''. Index, computer page 26
*[https://archive.org/details/medico-topographical-report-on-zanzibar/page/n3/mode/2up ''Medico Topographical Report on Zanzibar''] by John Robb,  Surgeon, Bombay Medical Establishment. 1879. Archive.org. Robb was Agency Surgeon in Zanzibar as part of the Government of India Foreign Department.
*** ''The Times of India Directory of Bombay (City and Provincial) including Karachi and Hyderabad State 1939''. Index, computer page 13
*[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]].
**''Directory for the Mahi Kantha Agency , Volume 1'' by F. Sorabji, 1922.  Contents, computer page 10. Mahi Kantha was a political agency or collection of [[Princely states|Princely States]]  within the Gujarat Division of Bombay Presidency
*The following volumes are available  online, see [[Directories online#The Times of India Directory| Directories online - The Times of India Directory]]
**''The Palanpur Agency Directory Volume 1'' 1908. Palanpur was one of three Political Agencies in the Northern Division of the Bombay Presidency. Contents , computer page 16.
**''The Times of India Calendar and Directory for 1907''. Contains information  for India generally. Contents, digital page 51
** ''The Times of India Directory of Bombay (City and Presidency) Karachi-Poona- Ahmedabad etc. 1932''. Index, digital page 42
**''The Times of India Directory of Bombay (City and Presidency) Karachi-Poona- Ahmedabad etc. 1935''. Index, digital page 26
** ''The Times of India Directory of Bombay (City and Provincial) including Karachi and Hyderabad State 1939''. Index, digital page 13
*[https://archive.org/details/mahikanthadirect00mast ''Directory for the Mahi Kantha Agency , Volume 1''] by F. Sorabji, 1922.  Archive.org. Mahi Kantha was a political agency or collection of [[Princely states|Princely States]]  within the Gujarat Division of Bombay Presidency
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35702 ''The Palanpur Agency Directory Volume 1'']  by F. Sorabji 1908. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Palanpur was one of three Political Agencies in the Northern Division of the Bombay Presidency. Contents , computer page 16.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=AAcoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ‪''The Indian Official Thesaurus‬: ‪Being Introductory to Annals of Indian Administration''] Compiled by Meredith Townsend 1858‬ ‪Google Books.  A guide to records.
*''The Annals of Indian Administration'', edited by Meredith Townsend and later George Smith. Selected extracts from the Records of the Indian, Bengal, Madras Bombay, NWP, and Punjab and perhaps other Governments. Google Books.
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OqsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 Part I 1856], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YrAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR6 Part VI 1858], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jrAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7  Volume 3, Part 2 June 1859], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=p7AEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 Volume 4, Part 1 March 1860], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=frIEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 14 1868-69].
*:Additional volumes to Volume 19 1873-74 are available on [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Annals+of+Indian+Administration%29&sort=-date Archive.org]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportonadminis03statgoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''General Report on the administration of the Bombay Presidency for the Year 1875-1876'']  1876 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportonadminis03statgoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''General Report on the administration of the Bombay Presidency for the Year 1875-1876'']  1876 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035E32 ''A Handbook to the Ports on the Coast of India between Calcutta and Bombay, including the Island of Ceylon'']  by Herbert Samuel Brown, Lieutenant, R.N.R. Port and Customs Officer, Mangalore. 1897. British Library Digital Collection.
*[http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Selections from the Travels and Journals Preserved in the Bombay Secretariat''] [http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] Edited by George W. Forrest, C.I.E., ex-Director of Records, Government of India. 1906 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/pts_historyofkathiaw_3721-1226 ''The History of Kathiawad from the Earliest Times''] by Capt H Wilberforce-Bell, late Political Agent, Sorath. 1916 Archive.org. Kathiawad is situated on the West of India, between the Gulfs of Kachh and Cambay
*[https://archive.org/details/bombaylandrevenu029748mbp ''The Bombay Land Revenue Manual 1934''] Archive.org
*Monograph Series. Republished in 1976 as  ''Art in industry through the ages: monograph series on Bombay Presidency'', with this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/898370 catalogue record for  contents] nla.gov.au.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34719 ''A Monograph On Dyes And Dyeing In The Bombay Presidency''] by    C G H Fawcett. [Sir Charles Gordon Hill Fawcett] 1896.  Uniform Title: ''Miscellaneous Official Publications''. Archive.org, mirror file from Digital Library of India.
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25311 ''Monograph on Woollen Fabrics of the Bombay Presidency''] by B A  Brendon, 1899. Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35090 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection], however the print quality is poor.
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25318 ''Monograph upon the Silk Fabrics of the Bombay Presidency''] by S M Edwardes,  1900.                Digital Repository of GIPE
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25453 ''Monograph on Tanning and working in Leather in the Bombay Presidency''] by J R  Martin  1903. Digital Repository of GIPE
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35145 ''Monograph on Stone Carving and Inlaying in the Bombay Presidency''] by J H E Tupper 1906. Digital Repository of GIPE
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/19557 ''Monograph on the art and practice of Carpet-Making in the Bombay Presidency''] by H J R Twigg,  1907. Digital Repository of GIPE
*[http://sanipanhwar.com  Sani Panhwar.com Website] Scroll down to collection of books on Sindh and Vicinity, and General Books.  With link to
**[http://sanipanhwar.com/reaebooks.html Rare Books] including Administration Reports on various topics.
:This link is part of the website [http://www.panhwar.com Panhwar.com] about Sindh. Many books on Bombay and Sindh. Pdf format.
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*[https://archive.org/details/bearsdacoitsothe00hentiala  ''Bears and Dacoits  and Other Stories''] by G A Henty c 1901. Archive.org. Includes "Bears and Dacoits. A Tale of the Ghauts".
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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).
"Account of the Caves in Salsette Illustrated with Drawings of the Principal Figures and Caves" by Henry Salt 25th August 1806, page 44 Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay. Volume 1, 1819 (1877 reprint) Archive.org
"Account of the Cave-Temple of Elephanta with a Plan and Drawings of the Principal Figures" by William Erskine November 2, 1813 page 214 Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay. Volume 1, 1819 (1877 reprint) Archive.org
The Wonders of Elora or the Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and Dwellings...at Elora, in the East Indies by John B Seely, Captain in the Bombay Native Infantry 1824 Archive.org. Second Edition, with Considerable Additions and Improvements 1825 HathiTrust Digital Library, with rotatable pages.
Illustrations of the Rock-cut Temples of India: selected from the best examples of the different series of caves at Ellora, Ajunta, Cuttack, Salsette, Karli, and Mahavellipore. Drawn on stone by Mr. T. C. Dibdin, from sketches ... made on the spot ... in the years 1838-9 by James Fergussson 1845
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
Notes on the Rock-cut Temples and Rock-cut Palaces Near Ellora by a Recent tourist 1856. With illustrations. Archive.org, mirror from Granth Sanjeevani, Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
Ajanta : a handbook of Ajanta Caves descriptive of the painting and sculpture there in by Shrimant Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao 1932. Archive.org, Ministry of Culture [India] Collection.
Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bombay Presidency and North-Western Provinces of India 1864 Google Books
Handbook of the Bombay Presidency with an account of Bombay City by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 2nd edition, ("for the most part rewritten") 1881 Archive.org
  • Our Last Years in India by Mrs John B Speid 1862. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository. The author’s husband was in command of the 2nd Regiment of the Hyderabad Contingent Infantry. She left England 27 October 1858 and the book appears to covers the period to 19 May 1861 (although the final date given is 19 May 1859). She also includes an account of the Mutiny at Aurangabad in 1857.
  • My Year in an Indian Fort by Mrs Guthrie published 1877 Volume I, Volume II Archive.org. The Indian Fort was at Belgaum.
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]
This link is part of the website Panhwar.com about Sindh. Many books on Bombay and Sindh. Pdf format.

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.