The Bombay City Police: A Historical Sketch, 1672-1916Edwardes, S. M. (Stephen Meredyth)
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The Bombay City Police: A Historical Sketch, 1672-1916
Edwardes, S. M. (Stephen Meredyth)
Crime -- India -- Mumbai; Police -- India -- Mumbai
[89] First Annual Rep. of the Commissioner of Police, 1884; Gazetteer of
Bombay City and Island, II, 245.
[90] G. R. J.D. No. 5628 of August 10th, 1883.
[91] Annual Crime Return, 1872.
[92] G. R. J. D. 2633 of April 21st, 1877.
[93] G. R. J. D. 2427 of April 29th, 1873.
[94] _Times of India_, 1872; Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, II, 179.
[95] Senior Magistrate’s Report of Crime, 1873.
[96] _Times of India_, February 14th, 1874; the Annual Register, 1874; J.
M. Maclean, _Guide to Bombay_ (1902) p. 285; Gazetteer Bombay City II,
180.
[97] Memoir of Sir Dinshaw Petit, Bart. by S. M. Edwardes, 1923.
[98] Annual Report of Senior Magistrate, 1874.
[99] Letter from Lord Salisbury to the Governor-General in Council, July
9th, 1874.
[100] Sir R. Temple, _Men & Events of My Time in India_.
[101] Annual Report of Senior Magistrate of Police for 1875.
[102] G. R. J. D., June 24th, 1892.
[103] G. R. J. D., 5389 of August 28th, 1893.
[104] Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, II, 237. A Fourth Presidency
Magistrate was appointed in 1892 and was accommodated in the Esplanade
Police Court. After the occupation of the Nesbit Lane building by the
Second Presidency Magistrate, the Court of the Fourth Magistrate was also
located there.
[105] Report of Comm. of Police for 1893.
[106] Mr. Cooper, the Chief Presidency Magistrate, retired in 1893 and
was succeeded by Mr. J. Sanders-Slater.
[107] Mr. Crummy acted more than once as Deputy Commissioner of Police.
[108] P. E. Roberts, _Hist. Geography of British Dependencies_, Vol. VII,
p. 508.
[109] The account which follows is taken, in some passages _verbatim_,
from Sir V. Chirol’s _Indian Unrest_, 1910.
[110] The Sirdar served for 38 years, having joined the force as a
second-class Jemadar in 1865. Apart from his work as a detective, he
is remembered as the founder of the Maratha Plague Hospital, which he
organised and opened in 1898.
[111] G.R.J.D. 3051 of June 4th, 1903.
[112] He received the title of Khan Bahadur in 1904 and the King’s Police
Medal in 1910.
[113] V. Chirol, _Indian Unrest_, pp. 55, 56.
[114] V. Chirol, _Indian Unrest_, p. 57.
[115] Prior to 1913 the Excise authorities were not empowered to
prosecute offenders in the Courts. The Police had to conduct all
prosecutions. From the year mentioned the Excise department was given the
necessary powers.
[116] A full and detailed report of the disturbance is given in Mr.
Edwardes’ letter to Government, No. 545 C. of January 20th, 1911, printed
below as an Appendix.
INDEX
A
Acworth, H. A., 102
Adultery, 66
Aga Khan, H. H. the, 63, 108-9
American Civil War, 50-54
Andhiyaru (“Andaroo”), 25, 28
_Ank Satta_, 84
Anonymous Postcards case, 171-2
Anthropometry, Bertillon system of, 95
Antonio, José, 34, 35
Armed Police, 9, 91
Arms Act, 61, 158-9
Arms traffic, illicit, 82
Asna Ashariya Khojas, 108, 109
Aston, A. H. S., 193
Aungier, Gerald, 1, 2, 5
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