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 [‎12r] (23/102)

12. I have not sent any reply to this yad, because time will show whether
substantial effect is really being given to the advice of Government or not.
13. On the 5th October Mr. Dadabhai came specially 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.
Evidence regarding the actual state of affaire in after hia usual visit to ask me to give
Petiami. a perwannah for troops to proceed to
(sa.) r . p. Petlaud as disturbances had broken out
there; and I understood him to say that they had been commenced by some
Kolis from the Borsud Talooka, Kaira Collectorate. I therefore wrote the fol-
lowingr letter to the Collector :—
o
" No. 1074, dated Baroda, 5th October 1874.
" From—Resident, Baroda,
" To—Collector of Kaira.
" His Highness'Minister has just informed me that the Kolis of the
Petlaud villages of Kussur, Juda, Mangrol, Mangulpur, Balanta and Cunploee
are cutting the crops of some of the Koonbees in their neighbourhood, and he
also implied that a kind of retaliation was going on between the above Kolis
and British villages of the Muthur and the Borsud Talookas.
" 2. Mr. Dadabhai proposes to send 100 infantry and 25 sowars to
Petlaud to keep the place, and I lose no time in informing you of the fact in
order that you may take precautionary measures on your own frontier. These
troops will leave Baroda to-night, as yet I have only received a verbal commu
nication from Mr. Dadabhai, but when the formal yad comes, I will make you
acquainted with its contents.
" 3. I did not clearly understand what concern we have in this matter,
but I was led to conclude from what Mr. Dadabhai said that the Kolis of both
districts were committing depredations".
14. Next day (6th October) Mr. Dadabhai's communication of the pre
vious day was embodied in the following yad. No. 1768, dated 6th October
instant:—
"No. 1768, dated Baroda, 6th October 1874.
" From—Resident at Baroda,
" To—His Highness the Gaekwar.
" The Fouzdaree kamdar has sent in a yad. No. 948, dated 4th October,
„ .i,- -i. ^ 4.1 4. t) u v- x from which we beaf to inform vou that
By this it would seem that British subjects are _ & p i i m i
charged with beginning the disturbances. about 50 amied men Ol Balada, Talookft
(sd.) r. P. Matur, came to Mangrol with the inten
tion of creating a disturbance with the infantry and sowars sent there to
preserve the peace along the boundary, but owing to the cautious behaviour
Theae it is supposed are Kolis driven ont by f th ® SOWarS 110 disturbance took place,
oppression last year. In the same way the Gaekwaree ryots
(Sd.) r. p. 0 £ p e tlaud Pergunnah who have gone
over to the British villages of Balada, Detlee, Wusaee, Sidjiwada, Dewathuj,
&c., came over and removed the crops in our villages without permission. We
request therefore that the Collector of Kaira may be addressed with a view to
put a stop to these depredations in future, and a reply sent to us as early as
possible."
15. I at once replied in my No. 1887, dated 6th October, as follows
" In acknowledging the receipt of 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). yad No. 1768 of this date, I
have the honor to state that agreeably to the verbal request of Your High
ness' Minister I yesterday wrote to the Collector of Kaira upon the subject of
the disturbances that have again broken out in Petlaud ; and I also issued a pass
for one company of infantry and 25 sowars to proceed there.
" 2. With reafard to the causes of this disturbance as alleged in Your
o m o
Highness' yad under reply to have emanated partly from British districts, 1
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