Rise and Growth of Bombay Municipal Government (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Rise and Growth of Bombay Municipal Government In the years 1901 and 1902 I had contributed, at the suggestion of its proprietors and publishers, the well-known Messrs. S. M. Ratnagar & Co, a series of articles on the Rise and Growth of Municipal Government in the city of Bombay to the columns of the Bombay Municipal Journal an excellent periodical but unfortunately defunct for some years past. The articles were widely read, and Twas urged by many a friend to have them collected in book form for permanent reference. Owing to a variety of work I was not able to do so till the close of last year when I applied to Messrs. Ratnagar & Co, to make me available their own press files which they very kindly did. I had also their permission to reprint the articles. Meanwhile my other enterprising press friends, Messrs. G. A. Natesan & Co, with their usual courtesy, which I greatly appreciate, offered to print and publish the book. The volume is now before the public. All that I would venture in this place to claim for the book is this. I have endeavoured to collect what may be called the dry bones of our civic history which, it is to be hoped, some historian in the near future will clothe with flesh and blood and produce a living narrative which shall serve as an enduring record for the benefit of future generations of the Bombay Municipal Corporation which has long since been recognised as a model for all India to copy. It is indeed a stately structure, beautiful to behold for the symmetry of its design and the elegance of its proportion. 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.