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Punjab Energy Development Agency Mann ministry: Bhagwant Mann: 16 March 2022 Incumbent Aam Aadmi Party: 44 Revenue, Rehabilitation & Disaster Management Mann ministry: Brahm Shankar Jimpa: 21 March 2022 Incumbent Aam Aadmi Party: 45 Rural Development and Panchayat Mann ministry: Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal: 21 March 2022 Incumbent Aam Aadmi Party: 46
The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay. The first mainland territory was acquired in the Konkan region with the Treaty of Bassein. Poona was the summer capital. [1]
A district of the Punjab state of India is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a District Magistrate or Deputy Commissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The District Magistrate or the Deputy Commissioner is assisted by a number of officers belonging to Punjab Civil Service and other state services.
Map of India showing Bombay as a British possession (c. 1783) Map of India (c. 1804) Bombay Presidency in 1832 On 21 September 1668, the Royal Charter of 27 March 1668 led to the transfer of Bombay from Charles II to the British East India Company for an annual rent of £10 (equivalent retail price index of £1,226 in 2007). [13]
Economically it transformed the Punjab into the richest farming area of India, socially it sustained the power of large landowners and politically it encouraged cross-communal co-operation amongst land owning groups. [202] The Punjab also became the major centre of recruitment into the Indian Army. By patronising influential local allies and ...
The enormous growth in spectatorship and cinema halls throughout the country soon established Bombay cinema as the dominant Indian film industry. [9] In April 1950, Greater Bombay District came into existence with the merger of Bombay Suburbs and Bombay City. It spanned an area of 235.1 km 2 (90.77 sq mi) and inhabited 2,339,000 of people in 1951.
Delhi: Separated from Punjab in 1912, when it became the capital of British India. Panth Piploda: made a province in 1928, previously administered by the Malwa Agency. Orissa: Separate province by carving out certain portions from the Bihar-Orissa Province and the Madras Province in 1936. Sind: Separated from Bombay in 1936.
Provincial elections were held in British India in the winter of 1936–37 as mandated by the Government of India Act 1935.Elections were held in eleven provinces - Madras, Central Provinces, Bihar, Orissa, the United Provinces, the Bombay Presidency, Assam, the North-West Frontier Province, Bengal, Punjab and Sind.