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'Baroda Enquiry Commission Report, 1874' [76r] (156/502)
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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SCHEDULE No. III.
C ase N o. 5.
(Originally Scliedule No. I., Case No. 7.)
The complainant in this case is one Balvantrao Ganesh, and his grievance
is that the village of Dawat, Pargana Baroda, which was given to his father
Ganesh Sudaseo by the late Khanderao Gaekwar as a reward for very distin
guished services, has been attached by His Highness, the present Gaekwar. It
seems that the village was granted to Ganesh Sudaseo in 1858, and that he
enjoyed it up to his death in 1866. In the following year it was attached, on
the ground that it was worth much more than lis. 10,000 at which nominal value
it had been originally given. The attachment continued till Khanderao's death
in 1870 ; and in 1871, His Highness the present Gaekwar, by the advice of
Colonel Barr, restored the village to complainant, paying him, at the same
time, Es. 30,000 on the assumption that Rs. 10,000 was the proper annual rental
for each of the three years that the village was under attachment. The residue
of the revenue for the said three years, amounting to Rs. 43,2o0'-15-0, 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).
kept for itself. The complainant alleges that in 1872, the village was again at
tached on the same plea, and that it is still under attachment. In support of his
claim complainant produced before the Commission a Sanad, granting his father and
his heirs for ever, the village in question, which was valued at Rs. 10,000, and spe
cially declaring that whether the revenue realised became more or less, the differ
ence was to belong to the grantees and not to Government. This document was
not impeached 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).
.
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 generally that the original intention was to
give Ganesh Sudaseo a village yielding a rental of Rs. 10,000 only, which, at the
time of the grant was erroneously supposed to be the revenue of Dawat; that the
words "be the revenue more or less than Rs. 10,000," were improperly entered
by the original grantee who was the minister of the Gaekwar at the time ; that
other resumptions not very dissimilar, were not uncommon ; that His Highness the
Gaekwar is willing to give complainant a cash payment annually of Bs. 10,000
or a village yielding that rental, in conformity with the original intention of His
Highness, the late Gaekwar Khanderao ; and lastly, that the very village under
discussion, was, in order that it might be available for the use of complainant's
father, the original grantee, he then being Minister and presumably all powerful,
resumed and taken from the possession of one Bahirji, to "whom it had been grant
ed in perpetuity.
3. The Resident in his final statement dated 30th December 1873, refers
to some remarks made by Earl Canning, late Viceroy of India, who declined to
guarantee on the part of the British Government, the continuance of the village
in perpetuity as prayed'for by the complainant's father when the village was first
granted to him by the late Gaekwar. The Resident further comments on the
defence put forward 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).
.
Opinion of the Commission.
There can be no doubt that this village was granted by the late Gaekwar
Khanderao, to Ganesh Sudaseo the complainant's father; and at the time of making
the grant, there was an impression on the mind of His Highness, that the rental was
about Rs. 10,000. But the words of the Sanad clearly prove that if the revenue
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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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Foliation: the main sequence of foliation consists of a small pencil number in the top front right hand corner of each folio enclosed in a circle.
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