PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I The Bhandari Militia 1672-1800

CHAPTER II The Rise of the Magistracy 1800-1855

CHAPTER III Mr. Charles Forjett 1855-1863

CHAPTER IV Sir Frank Souter Kt., C.S.I. 1864-1888

CHAPTER V Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Wilson 1888-1893

CHAPTER VI Mr. R. H. Vincent, C.I.E. 1893-1898

CHAPTER VII Mr. Hartley Kennedy, C.S.I. 1899-1901

CHAPTER VIII Mr. H. G. Gell, M.V.O. 1902-1909

CHAPTER IX Mr. S. M. Edwardes, C.S.I., C.V.O. 1909-1916

APPENDIX Mr. Edwardes' Report on the final Moharram Riot of

FOOTNOTES

INDEX

THE BOMBAY CITY POLICE

THE BOMBAY CITY POLICE

A HISTORICAL SKETCH
1672-1916

BY
S. M. EDWARDES, C.S.I., C.V.O.,
formerly of the Indian Civil Service and sometime
Commissioner of Police, Bombay