Representative Men of the Bombay Presidency

John Houstan, Representative men of the Bombay Presidency: A collection of biographical sketches, with portraits of the princes, chiefs, philanthropists, statesmen and other leading residents of the Presidency, Bombay & London: C W Burrows, 1900, second edition

229 pages, including 182 black and white photographic plates; full-leather binding with gilt title on cover and blind-stamped designs, all edges gilt.
11.6 x 14 in (29 x 35 cm)

A CITY OF PATRONS: PORTRAITURE AND POWER IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY

An imposing civic portrait album of the Bombay Presidency issued at the end of Lord Sandhurst’s governorship (1895–1900). Edited by John Houston (often spelt Houstan), the volume assembles authoritative photographic likenesses with concise biographies of the region’s most visible rulers, philanthropists and industrialists—princely leaders of Kathiawar and the Deccan alongside Bombay’s mercantile elite, notably Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, Cowasji Jehangir, Premchand Roychand, Moolji Jetha, Morarji Gokuldas, Dinshaw Manockjee Petit and others.

The book highlights portraits of famous royal personalities like Sayaji Rao III of Baroda, Shahu Chhatrapati of Kolhapur, and Khengarji III of Kutch, including kings of Bhavnagar, Junagadh, Gondal, Limbdi, Wadhwan, Palitana, Lathi, Vadia, Kagal Senior, Kagal Junior, Jamkhandi, Ichalkaranji, Talpur, and many great personalities of the Bombay Presidency like Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy, Cowasjee Jehangir, Mangaldas Natubhai, Moolji Jetha, Morarji Gokuldas, Premchand Roychand, and others.

The work functions both as a visual who’s-who and as a documentary map of patronage, philanthropy and municipal influence in fin-de-siècle Bombay.

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