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'Baroda Enquiry Commission Report, 1874' [94v] (193/502)
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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ComplaintB of Baroda Subjects.
16
SCHEDULE No.
E emaekb.
34 Case of Tanee, the daughter of Luximun
Rao Gooptay.
Case of Fakeer Shaha Saheb and Pate
Nuthoobhai Kaloobhai.
36 Case of Ramabai.
This case and No. 34 (as also that of
Chimnia Wagh No. 38) throw light
upon the insuperable objections raised
by the Ranee Jumnabhai to remain
in Baroda after the death of her late
husband. Vide Government Resolution
No. 5519 of 13th November 1871 and
Government Resolution No. 6015 of
12th December 187l ; and correspon
dence passim.
In submitting this case to the notice of the Commission, the
Resident desires clearly to point out that he has no inten
tion of holding the Gaekwar responsible for an illegal surrend
er of Baroda and foreign subjects by a British Magistrate.
The illegal and improper action of a British official in sur
rendering the accused persons cannot however exonerate the
Gaekwar s Government from liability with regard to their
previous or subsequent action in connection with this case.
The points to which the attention of the Commission is respect
fully directed are as follows: 1st.—The truth or falsity of the
criminal proceeding submitted 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).
. 2nd.—The
treatment of the chief offender, Tanee, as contrasted with the
treatment of the other alleged offenders. 3rd.—The deli
berate refusal 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).
to forward to the Resident any
of the accused persons for examination after having succeeded
in obtaining irregularly their surrender from British territories.
4th.—The circumstances under which Tanee's father, Succa-
ram Nimbajee, was arrested and subsequently died in prison in
Baroda, no mention of the surrender of this person having
been made by the Railway Magistrate at Bhosawul.
This girl's father came and petitioned the Resident on behalf of
his daughter, who, he stated, had been imprisonei by order of
the present Maharajah for about a year and a half without
trial or judicial inquiry of any kind. Her alleged offence
was, that she declared she knew nothing whatever re^ardin^
an alleged infamous intrigue between two persons of high
position, and denied having attempted to administer a narco
tic to the lady. She was for this thrown into prison, divorced
from her husband,, and her father was fined Rs. 2,000—all
without trial. She was a lowndee in the service of the present
Ranee, and is not at present more than about 16 years of age.
She was only released at the instance of the Resident, who
represented the injustice of such cases to the Maharajah and
advised her release.
d The proceedings 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).
in the case of this Fukeer have
been called for but have not as yet been produced. The man
is an inhaoitant of Madras, and came in the course of his
travels to Baroda, where he took up his quarters in a
Dnurumshala. He was reported to the Resident as having been
thrown into prison by the Maharajah for writing defamatory
reports to the press. He was said to have been sentenced
to 12 years imprisonment and Rs. 1,000 fine, and in default
ol payment to 5 years further imprisonment. He has been
released in consequence of the Resident's enquiries. He
has lost what little property he had.
This woman s case is similar to that of the girl Tanee above
squired to give false evidence to the
efiect that one Govindjee Naik (who afterwards died suddenly
in piison under suspicious circumstances and is generally be-
leved to have been poisoned,) had been concerned in a liaison
with the same lady referred to above. Upon refusal she was
stripped of her property and thrown into prison without trial;
Wxience she was released about a fortnight ago. after having
been m prison for upwards of two years.
■pp*
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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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