Discuss the development and administrative set up of Bombay Presidency in about 250-300 words.
Bombay Presidency:
(i) The factory of Surat was the earliest and the most typical of the British factories in India. The internal economy of the Surat factory set the norm for other factories and Presidencies. In 1657, the Surat factory was constituted the sole Presidency of the English in India. Englishman Sir George Oxiden took possession of Bombay in Sept. 1668 for the first time.
(ii) Declaration of Bombay as a Bombay Presidency, George Aungier suggested in 1671, that the seat of the Presidency should be Bombay.
(iii) Some steps for the growth of Bombay Presidency :
(a) Sir Jasia Child strongly fortified and the expenditure incurred was met from increased rent, custom duties and municipal taxes.
(b) In 1684 a Court of Admiralty was set up in Bombay.
(c) The internal administration of Bombay in the first half of the eighteenth century was marked by the establishment of the bank.
