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Presidency of Bombay 1662–1935Province of Bombay 1935–1950
1662–1950
Flag
Coat of arms
The Bombay Presidency within India in 1912
The Bombay Presidency in India in 1942 after formation of the Sind Province, States of Western India and Deccan States Agency
Northern and southern sections of the Bombay Presidency in 1909
Capital
Bombay
Governor
• 1662–1664 (first)
Abraham Shipman
• 1943–1947 (last)
Sir John Colville
Premier
• 1937–1939 (first)
B. G. Kher
• 1939–1946
Governor's rule
• 1946–1950 (last)
B. G. Kher
Historical era
New Imperialism
• Ceded by the Portuguese
1662
• Regulating Act of 1773
1773
• Government of India Act 1858
1858
• Scindia ceded Panchmahal to British
1861
• North Canara transferred from Madras
1862
• Separation of Aden
1932
• Separation of Sind
1936
• Independence of India
1947
• Bombay Province becomes Bombay State
1950
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Portuguese India
Maratha Empire
Bombay State
Sind Province (1936–55)
Aden Colony
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bombay Presidency". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Colonial India
Imperial entities of India
Austrian India
1778–1785
Swedish India
1731–1813
Dutch India
1605–1825
Danish India
1620–1869
French India
1668–1954
Portuguese India (1505–1961)
Casa da Índia
1434–1833
Portuguese East India Company
1628–1633
British India (1600–1947)
EIC in India
1600–1757
Company rule in India
1757–1858
British rule in Portuguese India
1797–1813
British Raj
1858–1947
British rule in Burma
1824–1948
Princely states
1721–1949
Partition of India
1947
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The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay. The first mainland territory was acquired in the Konkan region with the Treaty of Bassein. Poona was the summer capital.[1]
The Bombay province has its beginnings in the city of Bombay that was leased in fee tail to the East India Company, via the Royal Charter of 27 March 1668 by King Charles II of England, who had in turn acquired Bombay on 11 May 1661, through the royal dowry of Catherine Braganza by way of his marriage treaty with the Portuguese princess, daughter of John IV of Portugal. The English East India Company transferred its Western India headquarters from Surat in the Gulf of Cambay after it was sacked, to the relatively safe Bombay Harbour in 1687. The province was brought under Direct rule along with other parts of British India through Pitt's India Act, after the nationalisation of the East India Company. Major territorial acquisitions were made by the company after Anglo-Maratha Wars when the whole of the Peshwa's dominions and much of the Gaekwad's sphere of influence were annexed to the Bombay Presidency in stages up until 1818. Aden including Socotra were placed under Bombay in 1839, Sind was annexed by the company in 1843 after defeating the Talpur dynasty in the Battle of Hyderabad.
At its greatest extent, the Bombay Province comprised the present-day state of Gujarat, the western two-thirds of Maharashtra state, including the divisions of Konkan, Desh & Kandesh, and also northwestern Carnataca; it also included Pakistan's Sindh Province (1847–1935) and Aden of present-day Yemen (1839–1932).[2] The districts and provinces of the presidency were directly under British rule, while the internal administration of the native or princely states was in the hands of local rulers. The presidency, however, managed the defence of princely states and British relations with them through political agencies. The Bombay Presidency along with the Bengal Presidency and Madras Presidency were the three major centres of British power in South Asia.[3]
^Pinney, Christopher (22 November 2004). 'Photos of the Gods': The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781861891846 – via Google Books.
^Jerry DuPont (2001). The Common Law Abroad: Constitutional and Legal Legacy of the British Empire. Wm. S. Hein Publishing. p. 563. ISBN 978-0-8377-3125-4. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
^Bulliet, Richard W.; Bulliet, Richard; Crossley, Pamela Kyle; Daniel R. Headrick; Steven W. Hirsch; Lyman L. Johnson; David Northrup (1 January 2010). The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History. Cengage Learning. p. 694. ISBN 978-1-4390-8475-5. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
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