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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.
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).
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.
Jul 16, 2019 · A Short History of the Bombay Presidency. Author: Cox, Edmund C. Keywords: India--Bombay (State) Publisher: Thacker & Co. Ltd., Bombay. Source: Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. Type: Rare Book. Received From: Archaeological Survey of India. Dublin Core View.
The Bombay Presidency was a former province of British India. It began in the 17th century as trading posts of the British East India Company, but later grew to include much of western and central India, as well as parts of Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula.
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.
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.
Nov 22, 2018 · BOMBAY (PRESIDENCY or), one of the three presidencies into which British India is divided, situated between latitude 14˚ and 29˚ North; and longitude 66˚ and 77˚ East.
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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The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay.
