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The Bombay Presidency became Bombay State when India was granted independence on 15 August 1947 and Kher continued as the Chief Minister of the state, serving until 1952.
The Bombay Presidency began in 1661, when the islands of Bombay came under English control as part of the marriage settlement between King Charles II and Catherine of Braganza, sister of the king of Portugal. The English crown ceded the presidency to the East India Company in 1668.
Oct 19, 2024 · The Bombay Presidency, also known as Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was a British Indian administrative division with its capital in Bombay (now Mumbai). It was the first major territory gained in the Konkan region after the Treaty of Bassein in 1802.
Oct 8, 2024 · The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also known as Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India, with its capital in Bombay, the first mainland territory acquired in the Konkan region with the Treaty of Bassein (1802).
Bombay Presidency was one of the three Presidencies of British India; the other two being Madras Presidency, and Bengal Presidency. It was in the centre-west of the Indian subcontinent on the Arabian Sea.
May 27, 2019 · The Bombay Presidency Association and the Indian National Congress (INC) came much later in 1885 – setting the stage for India’s independence movement. It was Bombay that became the testing ground of many of Gandhi’s ideas: Satyagraha, non-cooperation and the Swadeshi movement.
Under the rule of Lord Elphinstone during the years 1853 to 1860, the Bombay Presidency faced the crisis of the Revolt of 1857 without any general rising. Outbursts among the troops at Karachi, Ahmedabad and Kolhapur were quickly subsided.
On 5 November 1817, the British East India Company defeated Bajirao II, the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, in the Battle of Kirkee which took place on the Deccan Plateau.
Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities examines the defining shifts in health and medicine, in Bombay Presidency, over seven decades. This work focuses on the major health and sanitation problems of the nineteenth century: the health of the European poor, battling alcoholism and venereal diseases ...
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Apr 21, 2008 · Handbook of the Bombay Presidency. With an account of Bombay city. by. John Murray (Firm); Eastwick, Edward Backhouse, 1814-1883. Publication date. 1881. Publisher. London, J. Murray. Collection. europeanlibraries. Book from the collections of. Oxford University. Language. English. Item Size. 234.4M.
