Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency

Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency is a publication of the erstwhile British India first published in the year 1894 and printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1896. Since the early 19th Century the English East India Company and later the British Empire annexed most of Western India and collectively named the provinces in Western India as Bombay Presidency.

Most of these texts are now available free to read online as scanned books (see External Links).

Each volume in the publications consists of the historic, geographic and demographic information of the numerous British and princely states under the presidency.

Volumes

Part I

Part I consists of

• History of Gujarat
• History of other minor states - Sholapur, Belgaum, etc.

Part II

Part II consists of five books, namely;

• Book I - History of The Konkan, By The Reverend Alexander Kyd Nairne.^[1]
• Book II - Early History Of The Dakhan down to the Mahomedan Conquest, By Professor Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar^[2]
• Book III - The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of The Bombay Presidency from the earliest historical times to the Musalman Conquest, By John Faithfull Fleet^[3]
• Book IV - Dakhan History, Musalman and Maratha, AD 1300–1818, Part I-Poona Satara and Sholapur, Part II-Khandesh Nashik and Ahmadnagar, By W.W.Loch^[4]
• Book V - History of the Bombay Karnataka, Musalman and Maratha, A.D 1300–1818, Colonel E.W.West

References

1. "History of the Konkan". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
2. "Early History of the Dekkan". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
3. "Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
4. "Dakhan History Musalman and Maratha (AD 1300-1818)". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-11-13.

External links

• Fleet, J.F. (1988). The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest of A.D. 1318. Asian Educational Services. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
• Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency (Volume XXI). Government Central Press. 1884.
• "Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency ... – Books on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
• "gazzetteer of the Bombay presidency – Books on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2015-11-13.