He had the same power and right in the Presidency as the Governor-General of India, and observed the same order and course in their proceedings. The executive Government of the Presidency was administered by the Governor. ĭuring British rule, a Governor was the chief administrative and political officer of Bombay. By 1906, the area under the jurisdiction of Bombay Presidency stretched from North Canara in the south to Sindh in the north, encompassing the now-Pakistani province of Sindh, some parts of the present-day state of Gujarat, northwestern part of Karnataka state, the British Aden protectorate in Yemen, and the western two-thirds of modern-day Maharashtra. The Presidency was established in the late 17th century and named after Bombay, the capital city and the island on which it was built.
It was bordered to the north-west, north, and north-east by Baluchistan, the British province of Punjab, and the Princely state of Rajputana to the east by the Princely states of Central India Agency, the Central Provinces, Berar and Hyderabad and to the south by Madras Presidency and Mysore State. It was in the centre-west of the Indian subcontinent on the Arabian Sea. īombay Presidency was one of the three Presidencies of British India the other two being Madras Presidency, and Bengal Presidency. Over the next two centuries, the British dominated the region, first securing the archipelago from the Portuguese, and later defeating the Marathas to secure the hinterland. The islands provided the British with a sheltered harbour for trade, in addition to a relatively sequestered location that reduced the chances of land-based attacks. The date of city's founding is unclear-historians trace back urban settlement to the late 17th century after the British secured the seven islands from the Portuguese to establish a secure base in the region. These seven islands were part of a larger archipelago in the Arabian sea, off the western coast of India. Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands separated by shallow sea.
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