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'Baroda Enquiry Commission Report, 1874' [130r] (264/502)
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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Note.—It is quite true that the Vakeel
was imprisoned on account of his hav
ing come to the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
to represent
his case, and he was only released on
the Resident's demand.
Present state of the relations of the Gaek-
war with the British Government and
the neighbouring States of the Rewa
Karta ; Mahi Kanta, Pahlunpur,&c. ; &c.
General circumstances of each case.
the Resident. I answered in the affirmative ; on this I was
sent in charge of a Karkoon, Kesharao Manick^, and a police
peon
A low-ranking infantryman, orderly or assistant (South Asian context).
to Balwuntrao Deo^ and Narayenbhai who asked me
whether I petitioned the Resident. I answered that I had.
They then asked me whether I had referred to a khurita of
Gunputrao Maharajah in which he had promised to turn out
all his servants who had been discharged by the British Go
vernment for misconduct. I said, that I had referred to that
khurita on which Balwuntrao Deo told me that I was liable
to ten years' rigorous imprisonment, and ordered me to be taken
away and imprisoned in a cell in the Fouzdar^s Kutcherry.
Two KarkooDS and six police peons were then sent with me
to my house^ and they seized all my papers and took them to
the Fouzdar, and I was sent back to prison. I remained there
for fifteen days, and was only released on a demand from the
Resident to know why I was imprisoned. I was then dis
charged. My duftur was then returned tome and 1 passed a
receipt for the same. I found on subsequent examination
that copies of three petitions that I made to the Resident and
some letters that I received from my employers and friends in
Kattiawar are missing. I then obtained permission from the
Resident to reside in camp and have been here ever since.
On the 20th of August I represented the whole of my clients'
case to the Resident and solicited his interference in the
matter, because, as shown above, I could not obtain redress
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).
. 1 have not received any reply as yet to
that petition.
It would take more time than can at present be spared to sub
mit to the Commission in detail the questions of guaranteed
and other Girasias, Wanta-holders, land and boundary dis
putes, cases of extradition and jurisdiction, failure to give
effect to Government decisions, transit dues^ customs, chow-
kees, &c., &c., which are at present pending between the
Resident and the Gaekwar Government.
It will be sufficient to state in general terms with regard to
them, that there are about 250 giras cases to be settled,
besides nearly the same number of other references on different
subjects ; and it is quite clear that unless a very different
mode of conducting business, than that now followed by the
Gaekwar Government is adopted^ the just and equitable
settlement of these vexed questions appears to be hopeless ;
consequently that persons entitled to our protection must
continue to suffer great loss.
Within the last day or two I have found the following valu
able evidence in my office upon the present state of our busi
ness intercourse with the Baroda
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).
. It is continued in
the last Administration Report of the Rewa Kanta for 1872-73,
and represents the opinions of Lieut.-Gol. Barton, the Politi
cal Agent of the Rewa Kanta, an officer of upwards of twenty
years' experience in Baroda itself—part of that period having
passed as Assistant Resident—and of Captain Reeves^ the
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.
who drew up the report in question.
In para. 252 of the report. Captain Reeves says " The rela-
" tion of this
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
with the Gaekwar could not well be in a
more unsatisfactory state. I will quote what Colonel Bar-
ton has said on this subject in a letter now before Govern-
" ment (viz., 17th October 1872)"—
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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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