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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.
The three key presidencies in India were the Madras Presidency, the Bengal Presidency, and the Bombay Presidency. Those provinces were centered on the cities of Madras (now Chennai), Calcutta (now Kolkata), and Bombay (now Mumbai), respectively, and each city played a key role in the spread of British trade and commerce in India.
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 .
Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding Marathwada) and Vidarbha) was merged with the princely states of Baroda, Western India and Gujarat (the present-day Indian state of Gujarat) and the Deccan States (which included parts of the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka).
By Saurabh Kulshreshtha. Sep 11, 2024 09:26 AM IST. In its first cabinet meeting after being elected to power in 1995, the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance decided to rename the state’s capital as Mumbai....
- Saurabh Kulshreshtha
The Bombay Chronicle, published in present-day Mumbai in Maharashtra, was a forum for exchanging political and social information and viewpoints within the Presidency and between Bombay (present-day Mumbai) and the rest of India.
Historical books online. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency All volumes are from Archive.org. Volume 1, Part 1, History of Gujarat 1896. Volume 1, Part 2, History of the Konkan, Dakhan and Southern Maratha Country 1896. Volume 2 Gujarat, Surat and Broach 1877. Volume 3 Kaira and Panch Mahals 1879.
