Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency is a publication of the erstwhile British India first published in the year 1884 and printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1884. Since the early 19th Century the English East India Company and later the British Empire annexed most of Western India and collectively named the provinces in Western India as Bombay Presidency.

Most of these texts are now available free to read online as scanned books (see External Links).

Each volume in the publications consists of the historic, geographic and demographic information of the numerous British and princely states under the presidency. The general editor of the first edition was James Macnabb Campbell.

Volumes

Part I
Part I consists of
 History of Gujarat
 History of other minor states - Sholapur, Belgaum, etc.

Part II
Part II consists of five books, namely;

 Book I - History of The Konkan, By The Reverend Alexander Kyd Nairne.
 Book II -  Early History Of The Dakhan down to the Mahomedan Conquest, By Professor Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar
 Book III - The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of The Bombay Presidency from the earliest historical times to the Musalman Conquest, By John Faithfull Fleet
 Book IV - Dakhan History, Musalman and Maratha, AD 1300–1818, Part I-Poona Satara and Sholapur, Part II-Khandesh Nashik and Ahmadnagar, By W.W.Loch
 Book V - History of the Bombay Karnataka, Musalman and Maratha, A.D 1300–1818, Colonel E.W.West

Main Volumes
Gazetteer of Bombay presidency

 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
 Volume 4 Ahmedabad 1879
 Volume 5, Cutch, Palanpur and Mahi Kantha 1883
 Volume 6 Rewa Kantha, Narukot, Cambay and Surat States 1880
 Volume 7 Baroda 1883
 Volume 8 Kathiawar 1884
 Volume 9 Part 1 Gujarat Population Hindus 1901
 Volume 9 Part 2 Gujarat Population Musalmans and Parsis 1899
 Volume 10 Ratnagiri and Savantvadi 1880  
 Volume 11, Kolaba and Janjira 1883  
 Volume 12, Khandesh 1880
 Volume 13 Thana 1882
 Volume 13, Part 2 Thana 1882
 Volume 14 Thana Places of Interest 1882
 Volume 15, Part 1, Kanara 1883
 Volume 15, Part 2, Kanara 1893
 Volume 16, Nasik 1883
 Volume 17, Ahmadnagar 1884
 Volume 18, Part 1 Poona 1885     
 Volume 18, Part 2 Poona 1885
 Volume 18, Part 3, Poona 1885
 Volume 19 Satara 1885
 Volume 20 Sholapur 1884
 Volume 21 Belgaum 1884
 Volume 22 Dharwar 1884
 Volume 23 Bijapur 1884
 Volume 24 Kolhapur 1886
 Volume 25 Botany 1886
 Volume 26, Part 1 Materials towards a statistical account of the Town and Island of Bombay - History 1893
 Volume 26, Part 2 Materials towards a statistical account of the Town and Island of Bombay - Trade and Fortifications 1894
 Volume 26, Part 3 Materials towards a statistical account of the Town and Island of Bombay - Administration 1894
 Volume 27 General Index 1904

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Indian inscriptions
Bombay Presidency
1884 non-fiction books
1896 non-fiction books
19th-century Indian books
Gazetteers of India