Enclosures of Letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.213, dated 27 November 1874: Nos. 3 to 31 of Abstract of Contents, from Foreign Department, Fort William [‎11r] (21/102)

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" Foot Mohsuls as follows :—
" Subsistence—
" 2 seers of flour
" seer of g-hee
Mohsulee paid to eacli footrnan in casli
" Total for each footman per diem
" Total for four footmen per day
" Charge of four footmen per month
0 2 0
0 2 0
0 4 0
1 0 0
30 0 0
" ^rand total of both horse and foot mohsulees per one month 198 12 0
" 7. Thus independently of the accession tax this village alone is alleged
to have been subjected to the above charges or thereabouts.
'* 8. The patel of the village of Panchote continued to state that these
mohsuls dunned them incessantly for payment; and that about eight days
ago some peons came from the Mysana Thanadar to call him (the patel), and
about 44 other villagers to Mysana about the payment of the arrears of acces
sion nuzzerana. ihe Thanadar is said to have told them that they must pay
the arrears due, otherwise they would be placed in the cage with Dhers; they
replied that they had not committed any offence, and that they were utterly
unable to pay the nuzzerana. The patel states that the Thanadar then ordered
them to give bail for their appearance before the Wahiwutdar of Kurree,
which they did, and reached Kurree on Wednesday, the 23rd instant. The
Wahiwutdar being absent, they allege that they were detained until Friday,
the 25th instant, when the Wahiwutdar told them to pay up the money; when
they replied that they were utterly unable to do so; and state that they
reminded the Wahiwutdar of the fact that about a m nth ago their crops had
been damaged by the overflow of the river owing to excessive rain, and that
at the time the Wahiwutdar, on being requested to come and see the damage
done, did not do so. They sta^e that the Wahiwutdar again urged them to pay
the gadee nuzzerana, else it would be their fate to go to prison, and accordingly
the sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. began to seize the villagers, but owing to the darkness they all
escaped except about 11 men who were thrown into prison, and were still there
when the Patel Kevul Purshotum left Kurree for Baroda three days ago.
" 9. The patel continued to state that he and two others of his villagers,
named Munor Bhawa and Jeykurun Amichund, arrived at Baroda by the mail
• train yesterday at nine o'clock ; that they immediately waited upon Kazee
Shaboodeen, the Revenue Commissioner, and obtained an interview about 4 p.m ;
that the Kazee Saheb informed them that they would have to pay the arrears
Note—Compare with paragraph 3 above.
of the accession nuzzerana, and that if
(Sd.) r. p . they agreed to this, he would think of
allowing them a reasonable time for payment.
'MO. Under these circumstances the petitioners accosted me on the road
this morning, and should their general allegations be correct as above set forth,
1 have thought it proper to address Your Highness in order that immediate
steps may be taken to give substantial effect to His Excellency the Viceroy and
Governor-General's advice throughout Your Highness' territory as set forth in
my yads above quoted, dated respectively the 16th and 23rd instant."
9. Again, on the 1st October another large assembly of ryots took place
at 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. , and on this occasion I confronted them all with Mr. Dadabhai
when he paid me his usual visit on that morning. I at the same time handed
to him the following memorandum showing roughly who the petitioners were,
and what were their claims. Mr. Dadabhai took the memorandum home with
him, and ordered all the ryots to attend at his cutcherry that day.