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'Baroda Enquiry Commission Report, 1874' [64v] (133/502)
The record is made up of 1 volume (249 folios). It was created in 1 Nov 1873-14 Feb 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .
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3. The Resident in his final statement, dated 5th January 1874, expresses
his hope that the village may be restored to complainant.
4 The Commission is of the same opinion as to the insufficiency of the
o-round assigned by the
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
for the resumption of complainant's Inam village
as in the case of Hari Bagti's firm (No. 37), but the stoppage of the "palki' 5
allowance seems to have been quite warranted.
III.— Case 59.
The complainant, Pat el of Baroda, states that the present Chief deprived him
in 1871, without any cause or reason that he is aware of, of an Inam village of
the annual value of Rs. 5,000, and a "palki" allowance of Rs. 600 granted to his
father by the late Gaekwar, Khanderao, and enjoyed by him, (complainant), since
his father's death in 1863. Complainant produces separate sanads for both grants,
assigning them hereditarily, and in perpetuity, (which the
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
Agent admits
to be genuine), and adds that the village has been given by His Highness Malhar-
rao to Govindrao Mama, one of the
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
Agents attending the Commission.
2. The
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
Agent states that the village was held on service tenure, and
it having been found after the accession of the present Chief, that complainant's
father had been guilty of receiving bribes, and had caused extensive loss to the
State in the works entrusted to him, he was deemed untrustworthy and unfit for
further employ. The village was therefore resumed, and the allowance stopped.
3. The Resident in his final statement, dated 6th January 1874, remarks
that the alleged frauds which formed the ground for the resumption complained
of, were not discovered till 8 years after the death of complainant's father, and
that the petitioner's chief sin appears to have been that he was in the enjoyment
of favours derived from the late Maharaja.
4. The resumption in the ease of this complainant, appears to the Com-
mission to have been a high-handed and arbitrary act on the part of the
Durbar
A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
,
and the ground assigned for it can hardly, under the circumstances, in the absence
of a formal proceeding of enquiry into the alleged frauds, be accepted as a suffi
cient justification therefor-
IV.— Case 62.
The complainant, a banker of Daroda, states that he was deprived by
the present Chief in 1870, without any cause or reason that he knows of,
(1) a torch allowance of Rs. 72, granted him by Anandrao Gaekwar ; (2), a palki
allowance of Rs. 700, granted him in 1838 by Maharaja Seiajirao, and (3), his
Inam vdlage of the value of Rs. 2,000 granted him by the late Gaekwar
Khanderao. He has not produced the sanads for these several grants, but states
he has them at home. Complainant's father had advanced Rs. 1,281-4-0 to the
present Chief in 1865, on the security of a gold watch, and a bond for the amount,
which, his father having died in the interval, he was required to give up on His
Highness Malhairaos accession. He did so, and was refused repayment of the
amount due by the Maharaja himself,
2. The Duibar Agent states that the torch and palki allowances were
granted to complainant s father when he was Munim of Hari Bhagti's firm, and
were resumed at the same time, and for the same reason, as the similar allowances
enjoyed by that firm The Inam village was conferred in connection with his
father s official post, as Mumm of the Sirsubah's treasury, and was resumed on his
death Complainants story about the loan made to the present Chief on the
security ot a watch is untrue.
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Report of the Baroda Enquiry Commission on the administration of the government of Malharrao, Gaekwar of Baroda. The Commission comprised Richard John Meade (President), Edward William Ravenscroft, Mumtazul Dowlah Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Faiz Ali Khan, Colonel Alfred Thomas Etheridge and Thomas Duncan Mackenzie (Secretary).
The report comprises a letter from the members of the Baroda Enquiry Commission to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department presenting their report on the results of the proceedings and submitting copies of correspondence, reports and statements relative to the enquiry (ff 5-19):
Appendix A, Part I
- Schedules I-III: Complaints and grievances against the Gaekwar's Government from individuals and groups (ff 21-78).
- Appendix B, Schedules I-III: Cases of complaint and grievance which the commission did not look into during the enquiry (ff 79-81).
- Appendix C: Letter from Colonel Richard John Meade, President, Special Commission of Enquiry on Baroda Affairs, to Colonel Robert Phayre, Resident at Baroda, 1 November 1873 (ff 82-83).
- Appendix D: Translation of an amended notice issued by the Resident to complainants desirous of appearing before the Baroda Enquiry Commission (ff 84-85).
- Appendix E: Schedules presented to the Commission along with Colonel Phayre's introductory statement regarding them. (ff 86-131).
- Appendix F: Letter No. 1128 of 1873 from Colonel Phayre to the President, Baroda Commission regarding the cases already submitted to the Commission, the List of undisposed petitions to be attended to by the Resident which could be used as additional cases if required and the statements that he had yet to make on cases under enquiry by the Commission (ff 132-133).
- Appendix G, Schedule I: Statements from witnesses with cross examination statements from the Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). on behalf of the Gaekwar and statements from the Resident as to the accuracy of the information provided (ff 134-229).
Appendix Part II (ff 231-245)
- Letter from James Braithwaite Peile, Acting Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kattywar [Kathiawar] to T D Mackenzie, Secretary, Baroda Commission, 13 December 1873 regarding papers requested by the Commission and informing them that the outstanding paper will be forwarded as soon as they are received. Enclosed with the letter are a memorandum from Peile for reconstitution of His Highness the Gaekwar's Contingent in Kattywar, 13 December 1873 and Rule for the guidance of the Officers and Kamdars appointed to the Contingent of Horse of His Highness the Gaekwar, serving in the various Tributary Mahals according to treaty.
- Letter from Peile to Mackenzie, 6 January 1874, forwarding a report and returns received from Colonel Walker, Superintendent to the Gaekwar's Contingent in Kattywar and stating that he does not concur with the Colonel's opinion. Enclosed with this letter is a letter from Colonel Chamberlen William Walker, 30 December 1873, providing the information on the Contingent requested by the Commission and enclosing an extract of the Contingents annual report for 1871 and a statement of the men within the Contingent on duty under officials paid by Talukdars etc, 06 March 1872.
- Letters from John Whaley Watson, Acting Political Superintendent Pahlanpur [Palanpur], Captain Henry Nicholas Reeves, Acting Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kantha] and Major Philip Harrison Le Geyt, Acting Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Mahi Kanta [Mahi Kantha] to the secretary of the Baroda Commission 19 December 1873 to 9 January 1874 reporting on the Gaekwar's contingents serving within their districts and commenting on numbers of men, pay and conditions. The letters all refer to enclosed returns, but only the return for Mahi Kanta is included in the report.
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