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

Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency

Volumes

Part I

Part II

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