Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of the Bombay Presidency I ndi a a continent rather than a country. - The term Indian People a misleading one - India as a whole - Component parts of the Bombay Presidency. - The climates - The food of the pe0p1e. The scenery and appearance of the country. - The vernacular languages. 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.