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'Baroda Enquiry Commission Report, 1874' [126r] (256/502)
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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79
SCHEDULE No. III-
-conUnued.
Names of Claimants, &c.
General circumstances of each i
Hurriba Gaekwar, Narayenhhai, and Bui
wuntrao are members of the present
administation. See case of Muggunlall
Hukumchund, No. 3 of this schedule,
for a parallel instance, a receipt having
been demanded for nearly 12
lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
and only 6 paid.
If this statement be true, and I have not
the least doubt of its being* so, owing to
the evidence of a similar kind that has
been recorded^ the onus of not fulfilling
the agreement in 1863 lies with the
Gaekwar Government, that act has
been the sole cause of the complainants
ruin.
A highly respectable man has been de
prived of his Wuttun, and in short com
plete ruin and desolation have been
brought upon him under the circum
stances related.
Even after so many years delay, Bhana-
bhai is willing to come to reasonble
terms, such as he petitioned 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 in^ June 1865, and it is this act
of justice which he now solicits at the
hands of the Commission.
rule that such stones' should be issued without payment
and that an account of the same be kept by you You
should only receive a fee of one anna per each stone which
may be brought by you from British territory and in this
way you should give 16 stones for a fee of one rupee. The
u 'ar will give to the contractor the value of the stones accord
ing to the agreement made with him. No objection to be
made m issuing stones to the ryots.
(Signed) GUNESHROW RUGOONATH,
Sir Sooba.
Veesona, Tailree Purgunna,Mhaivud 1921.
After this the work went on as before and by June 1865 it was
completed, as above stated, when payment was demanded from
Gunesh Rughoonath. No particular amount was mention
ed at that time; all that the contractor asked was settlement
of account, which,would at that time have been easy throuo-h
the medium of the contractor's own accounts of what had been
given to the ryots and the accounts of the survey. Gunesh
Rughoonath took the contractor to Baroda, and the latter
waited upon him daily for about a week, soliciting him to
compare his accounts with the survey maps and records, but
he did not do so. At last Gunesh Rughoonath and Narayeu-
bhai and Bulwantrow Deo proposed to the contractor to sign a
receipt in full of all demands by way of commencing the
settlement solicited. Bhanabhai replied that as yet he had
not received a single pie nor had his accounts been made up
and how could he sign such a document. The three persons
in question replied that this was his only plan of getting paid
at all; that half his bill would be paid to him ; and that he must
promise not to complain to the Maharajah about the other
half. They added, you only understand the English system;
this is the Gaekwaree way of doing business. Some friends
told him that do what he might a receipt would be extorted
from him, so fearing such a result he fled at once to Camp,
and afterwards went to Surat and complained to Mr. Cameron,
the Judge and Agent.
Mr. Cameron took the matter up in August 1865, and wrote to
the Resident, Colonel Barr, requesting that Bhanabhai's
claims might receive notice from him. The only action
taken at the time by the Gaekwar was as follows :—Bhana
bhai held a Oessaigiree wuttun in the Tailari Bur^unoa
of the Nowsari Zillah, the emoluments of which consisted
of Rs. 2,400 in cash, an inam village, and lands. Bhanabhai
resided at Bulsar, in British territory, and had a Deputy on the
Tailari estate. About November 1865, within three months
of Mr. Cameron's reference, the Deputy was turned out, and
the Wuttun of the family attached including house, &c. ' This
was ancestral property, and had been in their possession for
100 years. The attachment still continues. Bhanabhai
explains that other wuttuns had been attached with the
general attachment, but that his had not been so. He there
fore regards this act of the Gaekwar Government as dis
tinctly connected with this reasonable appeal to the British
authorities for redress regarding the boundary stones.
No reply having been given by Colonel Barr to Mr. Cameron's-
letter of August 1865 by the end of 1865, Mr. Hope, the
Collector of Surat, took the matter up and requested Colonei
Barr to expedite a reply to Mr. Cameron's reference. This.
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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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