Chandavarkar

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 12

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Papers of Dr Rajnarayan (Raj) S. Chandavarkar, Trinity College, Cambridge. Faculty of History, Cambridge and Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies, 2001-2006. Papers relating to teaching in Cambridge and to research on mills, labour activism and police in Bombay [Mumbai], 1920s and 1930s.

British Engineers’ Apprenticeship in Irrigation Technology, The Restoration of Old Canals in North India, 1810-1840s, February 13^th, 1935.
Exports of Opium from India to China.
Estimated city sizes in UP region.
Ahmedabad Cotton Mills report, 31^st Aug 1922.
Managing Committee of the Indian Merchants Chamber and Bureau 1918-1940.
Report on the Enquiry into wages, hours of work and conditions of employment in the retail trade of some towns of the Bombay Presidency, Labour Office Government of Bombay.
Report on and Enquiry into working class family budgets in Bombay City.
Report to ‘Mahatmaji’
A letter to ‘Reverend Mahatmaji Gandhi’
A letter to Bala Saheb, 10/4/1939.
Letter to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
In a peaceful village this happens if you fill the war fund.
Dadar district, Personnel of the taluka congress samities.
Bombay secret abstract, C of P special branch file 3036/H/I-23-28 of 1935.
Newspaper clipping ‘Bombay Congress Committee, appointment of sub-committee’, C of P special branch file 3036/H/I-23-28 of 1935.

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 11

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Papers of Dr Rajnarayan (Raj) S. Chandavarkar, Trinity College, Cambridge. Faculty of History, Cambridge and Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies, 2001-2006. Papers relating to teaching in Cambridge; publications and papers on textile industries in Bombay [Mumbai], 1891-1937.

Annual Factory Report for the Presidency of Bombay, 1909.
Annual Factory Report for the Presidency of Bombay, 1912, Statement No. 1: Emmeration of factories.
Annual Factory Report for the Bombay Presidency 1917.
Annual Factory Report for the Presidency of Bombay, 1922.
Annual Factory Report for the Presidency of Bombay, 1927.
Annual Factory Report for the Presidency of Bombay, 1932.
Annual Factory Report for the Presidency of Bombay, 1936.
Census of India, 1921, vol IX- Part 2- Bombay City, Occupation or means of Livelihood.
Report of the Commissioners, Public Service Commission, 1917 Report and Appendices.
Madras Legislative Council, Members 1894.
Report on the Administration of the Income Tax Act, For the year 1891-92.
Census of India, 1931, Volume VIII- Part II, Bombay Presidency, Statistical Tables.
Lists of trade unions, office bearers, members etc.
Lecture on the Introduction to South Asia.
Pages 27-32 of Hinduism/Religion/ Culture/Islam.
Lecture on the first Century of the British Rule- Permanent Settlement/Conquest/ Early colonial State 1985.
Misc Jottings for Lectures.
More lecture notes. ‘Writing, authority and the transfer of power’.

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 10

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

South Asian Union by Ranjit Kumar. 51pp.
Between work and politics social organisation and political action of workers in the Twentieth Century Bombay, by R.S. Chandavarkar.
4 documents awaiting translation.

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 9

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Folder 1 –

Notes from Chief of Police Bombay for Sec, GOB 2 Sept 1946. Chief of Police, special branch (I) File 21/K, communal riots, September- December 1946.
Statistics of persons presented in connection with the___ and the sentences connected to them. SB file 154/A/I of 1946-47: Communal disturbances- Bombay.
Makhala Krishnamurthy ‘Policing to a different beat? popular images and personal realities of the police in port colonial Mumbai’
Recrudescence of communal disturbance in Bombay from 30^th March 1947, Chief of Police, Bombay, to Sec, Gob Home, Sp, Bombay, 1^st July 1947, Chief of Police, Special Branch (I) File A/154 of 1947, Communal disturbances, Daily Letters, July- August 1947.
Note by K.J Pettyana, Dep SB Bombay, 15^th August 1936 Sohrab Shiavaxsha Batliwalla, Chief of Police, Special Branch File 3855/H/1936.
Special meeting of working committee of Bombay provincial Muslim league on 6^th August at Shaha castle, Mahomed Ali Road, M.A. Jinnah presided. Chief of Police, Bombay to Sec, GOB, Home (SP) Bombay, 11 August 1939, Chief of Police SB File 6403/A/154, Chota Qabrasta Firing.
24/4/28
Civil Disobedience, Chief of Police, Daily Reports, April- June 1933, Chief of Police, Bombay to Sec, GOB, home (Sp), Bombay 7^th April 1933.
Daily Reports, Civil Disobedience Movement, Vol XVI, Jan-March 1933, Chief of Police, Bombay to Sec, GOB, home (Sp), Bombay 3^rd Jan 1933. Special Branch Office.
Nariman released from Bijapor on October 23^rd Morning ‘Pulled down owing to Dysentery’ Bombay Chronicle 24^th October 1933, Chief of Police, Special Branch, File 3785/H/IV of 1935, Khurshed Framji Nariman.
Muslim Procession and Meeting to protest against the 10% property tax, Bombay, 2^nd August 1939, Chief of Police, Special Branch (I) File 6403/A/154.
Report on the Bombay Riots in 1929. 17^th July 1929, File 318/A/V of 1937: Riots of April-May 1929: Bombay Riots Enquiry Committee.
- Statement showing number of Hindus and Mohammedans done to death during the February riots,
- Statement showing number of Hindus and Mohammedans done to death by knives during the May riots.
- A copy of questionnaire for written statement.
Note on the alleged kidnapping of the Bohra boy on 3^rd February 1929, also has statements from the father, mother, various doctors mentioned in the note and the boy himself. 318/A/V of 1937
Letter from Ujamahi on the 16^th July 1929 about the report on the February and May riots and the reports bias and inaccuracies. 318/A/V of 1937.
Extract from written statement of Mr. K.F. Nariman on the 8^th February 1929. Accompanied by the Commissioners queries regarding the allegations made by Mr Nariman and a copy of entries in the Station Diary of the Princess Street Police Station for the 8^th Feb 1929. 318/A/V of 1937.
Letter to Mr J.E.B. Hoston from Dr. Jivraj Mehta. July 1929, 318/A/V of 1937 about the riots and assault cases.
Answer to question 4,5 of statement given to police about the attack of the Hindus upon the mussalmans on the 23^rd
Chief of Police, Special Branch, File A/297 of 1936 Part II: Hindus-Muslim and other affrays, 1928-1930.
- Force fight on Duncan Road between Hindus and Mahomedans on 23^rd June 1929, Bombay Chronicle, 24^th June 1929.
- Fight between Hindus and Mahomedans at the junction of V Lane Kamathipura and centre road, Report by Inspector, Nagpeda? Section, 24^th August 1929.
- TOI 15^th August 1929.
Letter to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, 7^th September 1930.
Chief of Police, Special Branch, File 6050/L: Framroz Jamsetji Ginwalla
Letter to the Secretary to the Govt of Bombay from Chief of Police, 25^th File A/297 of 1936 Part II: Hindus and Muslim and other Affrays 1928-1930, No. 2045/A/297.
Report from the Inspector of Police to the Superintendent of Police, 24^th April 1928.
Document awaiting translation.
Commissioners Report on the rioting -May June and July 1932, 29^th September 1932, 318/A/X of 1937, Riots of May-July 1932. 510/A/318 of 1932.

Folder 2 –

Extract from the report of the meeting of the millhands held on the Maidan opposite the Dinshaw Petit Mill, Lal Baugh on Tuesday the 26^th March 1929 from 5pm to 6:20pm. Papers relating to the riots, A/122 of 1931.
Special Report to the Superintendent of Police, about Clash between two parties headed by Keshav Laxman Borekar and Mohamed alias Bhuria-Hindus v/s Muhammadans at Gharapdeo road on the night of 18/5/1930.
Letter to the secretary to the government of Bombay, 7^th September 1930, Hindu-Muslim Riots at Dhamari.
Letter from the Inspector of Police. A/297.
Letter to the Superintendent of Police from the Inspector of Police, 8^th September 1930.
Letter to the Superintendent of Police from the Inspector of Police, 9^th Sepetmber 1930.
Letter to the Superintendent of Police from the Inspector of Police, 8^th September 1930
Letter to the Superintendent of Police, Bombay 21^st October 1930, Firing at Lal Baugh on 21^st October 1930.
Riots at Bhendi Bazar between the Mohammedans and the Mogul tea shop keepers, Chief of Police, Special Branch, File 318/A/VIII of 1937.

Folder 3 – files about cow sacrifice conflict and song censorship.

Report by B.U. Shankh, Inspector of Police, C.I.D, 10^th Feb 1920, Chief of Police, SB (I) File 4138- M of 1936, Cow sacrifice and
Muslim weavers and cow slaughter quota, Bombay City, S.B. (I) November 13^th.
A letter about cow sacrifice and mussalmans, Bombay 12^th July 1933
Cow Agitation, Bombay City S.B. 7^thJanuary.
An appeal to the members of the municipal corporation of Bombay, by Multani Tahilram Girdharidas Shikarpuri, 9^th January 1924.
Letter from the Inspector or Police, SB. 3^rd January 1924 about cow sacrifice.
Turbulent meeting on cow killing, S.B. 21st December 1923.
Newspaper clipping about cow slaughtering in Bombay, 30^th November 1923.
Newspaper clipping about cow slaughtering, 11/10/23.
Abstract about cow sacrifice. 20/9/23.
An appeal to the mussalmans, (MS translation).
Muslim opposition to prohibition of cow-killing, 24^th July 1922, Bombay City, C.I.D 4138/M
Newspaper clipping ‘Slaughter of cows, A protest against proposed prohibition in Bombay’ 26/6/22, M4138.
Letter about the cow slaughter question.
Secret Abstract about cow sacrifice, 8^th May 1920
Regarding Cow-Sacrifice, M/32
The commissioner police, Annual Muslim Sacrifice versus Daily Cow Slaughter in India, 15^th January 1920.
A letter about cow sacrifice and the mussalmans, Chief of Police, SB, File 4138/M/1936.
Letter 24^th July 1933.
Newspaper clipping from the Bombay Chronicle, 25^th July 1933.
Report about the Mangrol Firman: agitation, July 25^th
Report from Bombay, 10^th August 1933, about a secret meeting held by Muslims.
Report from Bombay, 28^th August 1933, about a secret meeting held by Muslims.
A newspaper clipping from the Bombay Chronicle, 23/10/33.
Report from Bombay, 23^rd June 1934.
Report from Bombay, 27^th June 1934, about a secret meeting held by Muslims.
Mangrol Firman Agitation 28th June.
Report on a meeting of the Mangrol Muslim Seva Mandal, Bombay 21^st July 1934.
A Newspaper clipping from the Bombay Chronicle ‘Stop cow slaughter’ 2/8/34.
Report on a meeting of the Mangrol Muslim Seva Mandal, 18^th August 1934
Newspaper clipping from the Bombay Chronicle ‘Prohibit Cow Slaughter’ 21/8/1934.
Newspaper clipping from the Bombay Chronicle ‘Pandit Sharma on his vow’ 18/8/34.
Newspaper clipping from the Bombay Chronicle, ‘Repeal cow slaughter order’ 27/8/34.
Newspaper clipping from the Bombay Chronicle, ‘Bhai parmanands appeal to Hindus’ 29/8/34.
Newspaper clipping from the Bombay Chronicle, ‘Ramchandraji breaks his fast’ 28/8/34
Report on the Muslims protest against Mr Jhabwala’s proposed bill, Bombay 11^th April 1939.
Report on the protest against prohibitions of the slaughter of Milch-Cattle, April 12^th.
Report on protest meeting against the resolution of the municipal corporation about stopping the slaughter of the milch cattle and the primary mulism league ‘E’ ward no 6. April 17^th
Report on the Muslim protest against the proposed restriction of the slaughter of Milch-cattle.
Bombay Secret Abstract, 22^nd April 1939.
Translation of a leader published in the daily Khilafat post dated 29^th December 1943.
Newspaper clipping from the Evening news of India ‘Ban on Slaughter of Cows, 15/1/44.
File about the censorship of gramophone records of songs which are banned. DCP, SB, CID to Shri V Y Tonpe, PA to Home Member, Home Dept Secretariat Bombay 29 Nov 1950, Chief of Police, SB, file 206/A/1948 Akalechi Gasht by Anna bhau Sathe. Bandya Divan dialogue by D.N. Gavhankar, M.G Karkhanis.
Letter about the censorship of banned songs, Akalechi Gasht by Anna bhau Sathe. Bandya Divan dialogue by D.N. Gavhankar, M.G Karkhanis. 206/A/1948.
A Letter from Superintendent of Police, to P.R. Lele and B.V. Varerkar, 26^th August 1948, Special Branch, C.I.D. no. 66H8/H.
A letter to the secretary to the government of Bombay, about the recorded Marathi songs of Shri Amar and Shri D.N. Gawankar from the commissioner of police, Greater Bombay 29^th November 1950. Special Branch, C.I.D, File No. 1548l/A/206

Folder 4 –

Home department special branch 1934. File no.543 (53) B. Home (Sp) 543(53) B of 1934. (Note: to be read with microfilm)
Translation of a Marathi leaflet ‘Intimidation of loyal workers: Proposals to deal with _ including proposed issue of notification under the Bombay Prevention of Intimidation Act, Home (Sp)543(10)E(BB) OF 1929.
Report on the communist meeting, Home department, 1935. Special Branch. File no. 543 (59). (Note: to be read with microfilm).
Sachhidan and Vishnu Ghate, Home (Sp) 543(18)A of 1928-29 (Note by Bombay City Police, enclosed in K.J. Petigara for Chief of Police to Sec, GOB, Home (Sp) No.3689/B Secret 24 August 1928.
Home Department 1935, Special branch file no. 543(77) of 1935, (Note: to be read with microfilm).
Station Diary, Maharbouri, P.S., 12/5/47. File 309/A of 1947 Kesharlal Roghunath Vandya.
Letter to the Government of Bombay, 21^st April 1953, Chief of Police, Special Branch, 100 A/1953.
Letter from S.I., A.G. Squad, 27/5/53,
Report submitted as per S.O. No.8 paras no.3 regarding a gaming raid conducted under special power. Chief of Police , Special Branch, 100A of 1953 Pandurang Shivram Ghadi.
Letter to Shri. C.S Pandya, 9^th April 1953. Chief of Police, Special Branch, File 100/A of 1953 Sayed Mohamed Akhtar.
Letter to Dr. Rajindra Parshad, Presidenct of India, 17^th April 1953, Chief of Police, Special Branch, File 100/A of 1953, Siddiq Safa, Sadruddin Jabbar.
Letter from the General Secretary to The Home Minister, 25^th March 1953, Chief of Police, Special Branch, 100/A/1953, Complaint against Hajarimal Visejii Mariwadi at Hajan Mariradi, Kundamal Maruradi (2).
Letter to Commissioner of Police, 7^th April 1953, Chief of Police, Special Branch (I) 100/A of 1953 Pandurang Bhavrat Bhat.
Letter to Home Minister 30^th March 1953, Chief of Police, Special Branch, File 100/A of 1053, Fidaali and others.
Lohsatta 6^th June 1970, File 1036 of 1968: Shri Knshnar Gangaram Desai and others.
Article ‘Bombay City Police’ by Deepak Rao
Copy of confidential circular No.8.B.980, dated 37^th (SIC.) July 1928 from the personal assistant to the D.I.C. of police.

Notebook with notes on readings and special branch research notes.

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 8

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Secret Abstracts of Intelligence from police files from the 1920s and 1930s about various topics including mills and riots.

Folder 1 –

Secret Abstract No. 1, 6^th January 1940, Bombay Province Police, Secret abstract of Intelligence, 1940.
Secret Abstract of Intelligence no. 27 (7^th July 1923)- no. 51 (Dec 22^nd1923), Bombay Presidency Police, Secret Abstract of Intelligence, July-December 1923
Secret abstract no. 45, 44 and 34 of 1929 Nov 9.
The Bombay Girni Kamgar union (red flag) give money to the strike fund.
Mararthi leaflet under signature of Purandhare. Translation: What militant workers should do. Bombay Police Archives No. 46 of 1929 para 2041.
Secret abstract of Intelligence, No. 1- 3 1937.
Secret abstract of intelligence, vol XXVII no. 1 of 1914: Saturday 10^th Jan 1914, Bombay.
Secret Abstract of Intelligence, various abstracts from 1914-1918. Bombay Presidency Police.
Secret Abstract of Intelligence, various abstracts from 1918-1928, Bombay Presidency Police.

Folder 2 –

Secret abstract no.1 (5^th Jan)-51 (21^st Dec) of 1929, Bombay presidency police.
Secret abstract no. 1 (4^th Jan)- 51 (20^th Dec) of 1930, Bombay presidency police.
Secret abstract no. 1 (3^rd Jan)- 51(12^th Dec) of 1931, Bombay presidency police.

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 7

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Papers relating to mill strikes, police files about riots and secret abstracts of intelligence.

Folder 1 –

Staggering of Mill Holidays, RSC’s comments and notes on special branch file on activism at mills in 1946, Special Branch File 6262/L
Framroze Jamsetji Ginwalla, Bombay Chronicle 18th Jan 1928, Special Branch File 6050/L
Rashtriya Girni Kamgar Sangh, notes from a file of collect reports about the foundation and subsequent meetings of the Bombay based union, Includes union literature in Hindi and Marathi, with translations.
Documents on the strikes at Dhanraj Mills, December 13th 1940, Special Branch File 6008/L.
Notes on the campaigns and results in local elections in Bombay City, Special Branch File A/292.
Notes on secret abstract of intelligence and copies of reports on the Indian Newspaper Company, Special Branch File 240/A.
Notes from the Bombay Chronicle and secret abstracts of intelligence, Special Branch File 240/A/1937.
Court cases including lists of people held after protests, giving their social status, income, education and life habits, 1930, Special branch File.
Bombay Presidency Police, Secret Abstract of Intelligence, No. 12 March 25 1923.
Bombay Presidency Police, Secret Abstract of Intelligence, Various abstracts, 1922.
Notes about intelligence gained about the extent of Swaraj political funds collected, Special Branch File 213/A/1937.
Statement of Abdul Karim Ibrahim 27th October 1943, Special branch File 4102/M/1939.
Notes about Bombay regulation and Control of Prices Order, 1939, Special Branch File A/378/1939.

Folder 2 –

General Mill Strike, Bombay 1929, Special Branch File 116/135.
Public safety bill as introduced in Legislative Assembly, Special Branch File 543(18) 4th Feb 1929.
TS copy of letter complaining of mistreatment of strikers, to the Secretary to Government from the general secretary , Bombay Girni Kamgar Union, Special Branch File 348.
Statement showing the number of men working in each mill on 25/5/29. Special Branch File 2878/L.
Collection of correspondence detailing and discussing government responses to strikes and labour unrest, Special Branch File 543 (18)-K.
Rounding up of bad characters, Special Branch File 543(10) E pt. G
Record of a meeting with labour leaders, court of enquiry file exhibits 1/45 file number 23.
Documents discussing bringing prosecutions against ‘Communist leaders’, vis. Bradley, Jhabwala, Joglekar, Dange, Nimbkar, Mirajkar and Alve (mostly from the Girni Kamgar Union, Special branch file 543(18) I.
Interview with Commissioner of Police and Mr U’ren of the Special Branch, Special Branch File 543(18).
Speech of Mr F.J. Ginwala, court of enquiry, exhibits 1/44 file number 23.
Housing of the industrial classes, Revenue Department, C Branch, C-1033/1921

Folder 3 –

Notes taken from a special branch file detailing policing and unrest in railway workshops and on lines, Strikes on Railways, Special Branch File 170/A.
Report on the transfer of jurisdiction over sections of railways to the Railway Police and the Bombay City Police. Includes documents from 1913 onwards, Special branch file 110/A.
Report of a meeting to discussion eviction of strikers; documents about the terms on which strikers returned to work, special branch file 110/A.
Notes and copies of police statements and witness statements about riots during a Sikh religious procession, February 1927, the Muslim-Sikh riots at Chakla, Special branch file 297/A/III.
Notes and copies of documents relating to a riot in Parel District, April 1929, Special branch file 318/AVI.

Folder 4 –

Notes and copies of documents relating to riots and disturbances at Chota Qabristan, 1 August 1939, and in other areas on subsequent days. Reports to Govt, police files, mps etc.
Daily letters to Government re. kidnapping scene in Bombay and the subsequent riots of February 1929. With RSC’s notes and a hand-written index.

Folder 5 –

Secret Abstracts of Intelligence, 1934-1937.

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 6

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Papers and reports about the workers and daily life of mills, from the 1930s and 1940s.

Folder 1 –

Problems of textile industry in India, a trade union view.
‘The Bombay cotton mill worker’ R.G. Gokhale
Workers’ Welfare league of India, Annual Report for year ending Dec 1928.
Workers’ welfare league of India, 1290/B/1935.

Folder 2 –

Report of the Sholapur Handloom Weavers Enquiry Committee, Bombay 1948, From Political and services dept, File 918/46 Part II.
Report of the Fact-Finding Committee (Handloom and mills) Delhi 1942, Government of India, BMA.
R. Deshpande, (G.O.I) Report of the Enquiry into the Family Budgets of Industrial Workers in Sholapur City (Delhi, 1948).
Government of Bombay, Report on the Enquiry into Family Budgets of Cotton Mill Workers in Sholapur City, I.S.BO 147/11. Labour Office

Folder 3 –

Judical/Police 1904 June A35-53.

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 5

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Managers report to directors throughout various years in four different mill companies.

Folder 1 –

The Angus Jute Company Limited, Manager’s Report to Directors,1937, 1939, 1948.

Folder 2 –

The Titaghur Jute Factory Company Limited Mills, Managers’ Report for Directors 1930, 1932, 1937, 1939, 1948.

Folder 3 –

The Samnggur Jute Factory Company Limited mills. Managers’ Report for Directors 1932, 1933, 1937,1939, 1948.

Folder 4 –

The Victoria Jute Company, Limited, Manager’s Report for Directors 1930, 1932, 1937, 1939, 1948, 1956.

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 3

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Papers from the Textile Labour Inquiry Committee looking into the mills, with a focus on Sholapur Mill, from the late 1930s.

Folder 1 –

Textile Labour Inquiry Committee 1939 File No. 51.
Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Bombay 1937-1938. File no. 43.
Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, File 44-B vol VII.
Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Home Department, Special Branch 1939 file no. 543(45)
Note on the Bombay Maternity Benefit Act and its working, Textile Committee, 1937-40 File No.12.
Air Conditioning in Textile Mills. Historical Note, Chief Inspector of Factories, TLIC File 12.
City of Bombay Improvement Trust, Minutes and Proceedings of the meeting of the board of trustees, General department 1905, Vol No, 25, Compilation No. 833.
List of cotton textile mills inflicting fines and making disbursement from Fines fund. Chief Inspector of Factories, Bombay to Sec TLIC, 17^th August 1939, TLIC File 12.

Folder 2 –

Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Oral Evidence (Main Inquiry) Representative from the mills in Sholapur, File 76-A of 1938-40. (MSA).
Photocopy of book, N.G. Jog, (ed.) Narottam Morajee: Architect of Modern Shipping Shipping (Bombay 1977).

Folder 3 –

Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, A complete set of the oral evidence taken by the committee for the interim inquiry (Part 1), File 42 of 1937-38. Correspondence with the chief Inspector of Factories, Bombay, (Part 2), File 12 of 1937-40. (MSA).

Folder 4 –

Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Oral Evidence (Main Inquiry) Representative workers, Sholapur, File 75-A of 1938-40. (MSA)
Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Oral Evidence (Main Inquiry) Representative workers Sholapur, File 75-C of 1938-40. (MSA)
Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Statement submitted by committee by bodies and persons on questions arising on the oral evidence, File 50-A of 1939-1940. (MSA)
Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Statement submitted by committee by bodies and persons on questions arising on the oral evidence, File 50-B of 1939-40. (MSA)
Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Correspondence with criminal tribes settlement in Sholapur, 1939, File 16 of 1939. (MSA)
Proceedings of the Textile Labour Inquiry Committee, Oral Evidence (Main Inquiry) Standardisation Scheme, Wednesday 19^th July 1939, File 80C of 1938-40. (MSA)
Centenary of the textile industry of the India 1854-1954, The Indian Textile Journal, September 92 Bombay, (BMA).

Chandavarkar Papers: Box 4

Donated by Dr J.S. Davis

Folder 1:

Notes of evidence recorded by the Chhota Qabrastan Police Firing Committee, presided over by the Hon’ble Mr Justice Broomfield. 306pp. Indexed.

Folder 2:

Evidence and statements about strike activity, and police responses, at the Manekji Petit Mill, November 1928. Includes reports on later activity at the mill, its sale and the legislative response to industrial action.
Papers and reports relating to the passage of the Industrial Relations Bill through the Bombay Legislative Assembly.
Copies of research papers into the trials of labour activists, 1928-1938.
Police and press reports on union activity in 1938.
Reports on the passage and implementation of the Trades Disputes Bill.
Special Branch reports the membership and activities of Shiv Sena in Bombay.
Report: Shivsena and the February Riots. n.d. 4 chapters, 36pp.

Documents:

Pamphlet: A statement of accounts of the Bombay Provincial Congress Committee for thirteen months ending 30th September, 1922.
Pamphlet: Constitution of the Provincial Congress Committee for the City of Bombay. Bombay, 1924, 23pp.
4 documents awaiting translation.
Report of an enquiry in wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926. Labour Office, Government of Bombay, 1930