Excerpt from Bombay, 1885 to 1890: A Study in Indian Administration Bombay was peculiarly qualified to deal with questions arising in such a Province, for while trained in an hereditary conservatism of an almost archaic type, he was by personal character and conviction essentially a man of progress. I do not think that I could better fulfil the promise made to vou, than by this account of the administration of Western India during the governorship of Lord Reay, from 1885 to 1890. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.