[72] C. Forjett, Our Real Danger in India, 1877; Holmes, History of the Indian Mutiny.
[73] Apparently it was customary during the Muharram festival in the ’fifties of last century to post a body of 200 Europeans in “the Bhendy Bazar stables”. Presumably additional European police were brought in from Poona and other districts. The Muharram danger was finally eradicated in 1912.
[74] The Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, Vol. II, 158.
[75] C. Forjett, Our Real Danger in India, 1877.
[76] Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island, Vol. II, 158-9.
[77] C. Forjett, Our Real Danger in India.
[78] Douglas, Bombay and W. India, I, 211.
[79] C. Forjett, Our Real Danger in India.
[80] The use of the phrase “Deputy Commissioner of Police” is explained by the fact that, strictly speaking, the Senior Magistrate was at this date Commissioner of Police, and Forjett as head of the “executive police” was his Deputy. Forjett in his book speaks of himself as Commissioner of Police: but this title was not given to the head of the force till 1865. In the Senior Magistrate’s Annual Crime Return for 1860 Forjett is styled Superintendent of Police: but in his evidence before the Supreme Court in the Bhattia Conspiracy Case, Forjett stated, “In my official capacity as Deputy Commissioner of Police, I received a letter.”
[81] In earlier days one of the chief haunts of these gangs was a deep hollow near the site of the present Arthur Crawford Market (J. M. Maclean, Guide to Bombay, 1902, p. 206.)