See also:

• The Presidencies of British India: Bengal, Bombay and Madras
• The Presidencies of British India II: Bengal, Bombay and Madras
• The Presidencies of British India: Bengal
• The Presidencies of British India: Madras

Published in 1887 by Thacker, Bombay, and authored by Edmund C. Cox (Trinity College, Cambridge; Bombay District Police) is this ‘tolerably full account of the process by which the West of India came under the British flag’, focusing, in this edition, on the events that took place in Bombay. A useful resource for an historical overview of the Bombay presidency.

The 27 chapters of the book are linked below:

• Preface
• Note on the Spelling of Indian Names 
• Contents
• Sketch Map of the Bombay Presidency
• Chapter I. Description of the Bombay Presidency
• Chapter II. Description of the People
• Chapter III. Early Hindu Civilisation
• Chapter V. [sic] Establishment of the Muhammadan Rule
• Chapter V. Conquests of the Portuguese
• Chapter VI. Foundation of the Moghal Empire
• Chapter VII. Coming of the English
• Chapter VIII. Rise of the Maráthas 
• Chapter IX. Expansion of the Marátha Power
• Chapter X. Decline of the Moghal Empire 
• Chapter XI. Rise of the Peshwas and the Great Marátha Houses
• Chapter XII. Struggle between the English and the French
• Chapter XIII. First Marátha War
• Chapter XIV. Theory of the Balance of Power
• Chapter XV. Second Marátha War
• Chapter XVI. British Supremacy
• Chapter XVII. Pindhári or Third Marátha War 
• Chapter XVIII. Mountstuart Elphinstone 
• Chapter XIX. Policy of Self-Effacement 
• Chapter XX. The Amirs of Sind 
• Chapter XXI. Conquest of Sind 
• Chapter XXII. The Law of Lapse 
• Chapter XXIII. The Sowing of the Wind 
• Chapter XXIV. The Reaping of the Whirlwind 
• Chapter XXV. The Mutinies of Bombay 
• XXVI. Exploits of the Bombay Army 
• Chapter XXVII. Internal Administration 
• Index

To follow soon, an overview of:

• The Handbook of the Bengal Presidency
• A Short Account of the Madras Presidency

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