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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
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*''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government''. Google Books and Hathi Trust Digital Library.
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*''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government''.  
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**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$c178136?urlappend=%3Bseq=7  ''No III Memoir of the Zilla of Baroche''] 1852  Hathi Trust Digital Library. This report was originally issued in 1825: [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=f0JAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Memoir of the Zilla of Baroche: Being the Result of a Revenue, Statistical, and Topographical Survey of that Collectorate''] under the direction of Lieutenant -Colonel Monier Williams. 1825 Google Books
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**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$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
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**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_w0_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No I New Series: On the Supply of Water to Bombay''] 1854
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**[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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**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vQ0_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XII New Series'': Includes ''Memoir On The Mahee Kanta''] 1855  
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**[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
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**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wxA_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XVII New Series''  Includes ''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
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**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vQ0_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1  ''No XII New Series'': Includes ''Memoir On The Mahee Kanta''] 1855 Google Books
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**[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  
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**[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
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**[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=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
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**[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…''] 1856
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**[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
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**[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  
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**[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
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**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=TKACAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR4 ''No XLI New Series: Memoir on the Satara Territory''] 1857  
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**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=TKACAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR4 ''No XLI New Series: Memoir on the Satara Territory''] 1857 Google Books
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**[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
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**[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
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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. Hathi Trust Digital Library
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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
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**[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
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**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1kY9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5  ''No CLXXXIV New Series: Khoti Tenure'']  1873 Google Books
 
**[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].  
 
*''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
 
*''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
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*[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
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*''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.
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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
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: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 following volumes are available to read online, see [[Directories online#The Times of India Directory| Directories online - The Times of India Directory]]
 
*The following volumes are available to read 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, except Volume 7

Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series 1908

Other

  • A Gazetteer of the Province of Sind by AW Hughes 1876 Archive.org
  • The following volumes are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, with mirror editions on Archive.org: Gazetteer of the Province of Sind by EH Aitken 1907. Pdf download, 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. The first six are available to read online on DLI
Volume I- Karachi District: Archive.org/DLI 1910 (perhaps 1919?), Archive.org/DLI, [1919], Pdf download DLI 1919, different digital file; Volume II- Hyderabad District, Pdf download 1927, Archive.org version; Volume III -Sukkur District, Pdf download 1919, Archive.org version; Pdf download 1928, Archive.org version; Volume IV- Larkana District, Pdf download 1927, Archive.org version; Volume V- Nawabshah District, Pdf download 1920, Pdf download 1926, Archive.org version; Volume VI-Thar and Parkar District Pdf download 1919, Archive.org version, different file. (Not available online: B Volume VII Upper Sind Frontier District, but it is available at the British Library IOR/V/27/63/110).
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

  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.
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