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*[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
*[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
*''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''.  
*''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.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$c178136?urlappend=%3Bseq=7  ''No III Memoir of the Zilla of Baroche''] 1852  HathiTrust Digital Library. This report was originally issued in 1825: [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=f0JAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Memoir of the Zilla of Baroche: Being the Result of a Revenue, Statistical, and Topographical Survey of that Collectorate''] under the direction of Lieutenant -Colonel Monier Williams. 1825 Google Books
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$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=_w0_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No I New Series: On the Supply of Water to Bombay''] 1854 Google Books
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**[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]
**[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.
**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] commencing page 20.
***[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/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/n281/mode/2up  ''No LXXVI New Series''] 1863. Observations on the Influence of Forests.
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**[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=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://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.
**[http://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].  
**[http://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.
*''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
*''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/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]

Revision as of 00:51, 25 February 2020

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.