Enclosures to Letters and Despatches to the Secretary of State for India regarding affairs in Baroda

Content

The enclosures comprise letters and telegrams between the Secretary of State for India, Foreign Department (Charles Umpherston Aitchison); Chief Secretary to the Government at Bombay (Charles Gonne); Agent, Governor-General and Special Commissioner at Bombay (Lewis Pelly); Resident at Baroda (Colonel Robert Phayre); Gaekwar of Baroda (Malharrao); Viceroy of India (Thomas George Baring, Second Baron Northbrook); Advocate-General at Bombay (Andrew Richard Scoble); and Commissioner of Police at Bombay (Frank Henry Souter).

The matters discussed in the enclosures all relate to the State of Baroda and its management, the earlier enclosures relate to an enquiry into financial mismanagement within the state; and the later ones relate to an attempt to poison the Resident at Baroda, Colonel Phayre, which is alleged to have been orchestrated by the Gaekwar of Baroda.

Also discussed are the subsequent trial of the Gaekwar for his involvement in the poisoning attempt, and the work by Lewis Pelly, as Special Commissioner for Baroda, to resolve the problems of the financial administration of the state.

Extent and format

1 file, 5 items (158 folios)

It is grouped into

Enclosures of Letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.213, dated 27 November 1874: Nos. 3 to 31 of Abstract of Contents, from Foreign Department, Fort William

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Ref: Mss Eur F126/81, ff 1-51

Enclosures of letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.11, dated 15 January 1875: Nos. 3 to 45 of Abstract of Contents, from the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Fort William

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Ref: Mss Eur F126/81, ff 52-100

Enclosures of letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.17, dated 22 January 1875: Nos. 3 to 26 of Abstract of Contents, from the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Fort William

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Ref: Mss Eur F126/81, ff 101-145

Enclosures of letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.18, dated 22 January 1875: Nos. 3 to 30 Abstract of Contents from the Foreign Department, Fort William

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Ref: Mss Eur F126/81, ff 146-155

Enclosure of letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.25, from the Foreign Department, Fort William

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Ref: Mss Eur F126/81, ff 156-158

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The file has been foliated using a pencil number enclosed in a circle located in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Mss Eur F126/81

History of this record

Date(s)

27 Nov 1874-28 Jan 1875 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

Commissioner of Police, MumbaiGovernment of Bombay, Chief SecretarySecretary of State for India, United KingdomGovernment of India, Foreign SecretaryHigh Court of Judicature, Advocate-General, BombayJonathan Duncan Inverarity

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