'Baroda Enquiry Commission Report, 1874' [187r] (378/502)
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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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).
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7. Statement of Lakshman bin
Pandoba, accused No. 6, taken before
Balvantrao Eshvant, but does not
bear that officer's signature. It is
dated Falgun vad 4th, Tuesday,
Sam vat 1929. The accused states :—
He does not know of the sickness
and cause of Tatiaba's death, but was
simply informed, on arrival at the
palace, that Tatiaba had expired. He
is not aware whether or not Tatiaba
ate "shrikhand," and does not know
by whom it was prepared. There
was no consultation between accused
Raghu and himself about any affair,
and he was not concerned in bring
ing any arsenic. He does not know
anything about it. He has no enmity
against the accused Daji.
8. Statement ofFatteh Ali Amin-
udin, accused No. 7.
I am a gumasta (servant) of the
Government Borah, Nurudin Mia-
khan. The day before yesterday,
Falgun vad 2nd, Sunday, Govern
ment Kamati Daji and Ganu, who
are now present, came early in the
morning to my shop and asked
for arsenic for the purpose of kill
ing rats; consequently, I brought
and gave, without weighing, half a
tola of the poison, which was in a
tin box in my master's house. No
record was kept, and no price was
taken, but it was given without pay
ment. The tin box which contains
the arsenic in my master's house is
produced by me, Falgun vad 4th,
Tuesday, Samvat 1929.
Before me,
(no signature.)
Remarks hy
Denies all knowledge whatever of
the transaction, and there is nothing
against him except Daji's statement
that lie brought the poison from the
Borah's shop to him. The statement
however is flatly contradicted by the
Borah boy Fatteh Ali.
In the Sir Foujdar's finding, evi
dence is said to have been given
against this accused by Ganu. This
statement is false ; yet the man was
unmercifully flogged at 7 different
places with 12 stripes, and condemn
ed with the rest to imprisonment for
life.
This accused person is said to
have acknowledged that on Sunday,
the 2nd of last, Daji and Ganu
came to his shop and asked for
arsenic for killing rats, which he
brought from his master's /house
and gave to them. This alleged
admission of the boy has been made
use of by the Sir Foujdar in his find
ing as amounting to a plea of guilty
to the charge of abetting wilful
murder. Even if the boy gave the
arsenic, as alleged, for killing rats, it
does not prove that he was in any
way implicated in the alleged crime
of poisoning, of which no one has
even accused him except the Fouj
dar. His sentence therefore of an
unmerciful flogging through the city
and imprisonment for life, appears,
on 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).
's own showing, to be
utterly unjustifiable. Morever, ac-
cordingto Section 45 of the Criminal
Code of the Gaekwar's State, any
person selling arsenic without the
permission of Government, shall, on
conviction, be liable to imprisonment
up to 3 months, or to a fine of Rs. 20,
or both ; whereas not only has this
boy been punished as above describ
ed, but his master also. Nurudin
Miakhan was fined
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
5,000 by
the Maharaja, for the supposed crime
of leaving his arsenic, so as tobeac-
cessible to his gumasta.
n—39
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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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