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 [‎41v] (82/102)

Highness the Gaekwar to the Viceroy's address, together with copy of a
report from the Resident at Baroda, No. 367-1234, dated the 4th instant,
commenting on tj^e representations made in the khureeta An important letter usually sent in an elaborate textile pouch, dispatched as part of the royal or diplomatic correspondence of rulers and elites. against him.
2. In forwarding these papers, this Goventment would only observe that
the general considerations on which the Gaekwar's demand for the removal of
the llesident is based, might with equal force have been pleaded at the time of
the issue of the instructions of the Government of India on the Report of the
Baroda Commission, and must no doubt have presented themselves to the mind
of His Excellency the Viceroy in Council.
3. Only two instances of alleged opposition on the part of the Resident
are specifically referred to in the khureeta An important letter usually sent in an elaborate textile pouch, dispatched as part of the royal or diplomatic correspondence of rulers and elites. , and the explanations that have been
given by the llesident go to shew that the line of action taken by him was in
one instance the combined result of disregard on the part of 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). of the
claims and grievances of the Sirdars Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. , and of the questionable character of the
marriage contracted by the Gaekwar.
4. In the other case I am to state the Resident found himself unable to
pass without notice the complaints of certain cultivators of the wrongs to which
they were exposed, in spite of all their efforts to obtain redress.
5. The Progress Report referred to in paragraph 28 of Colonel Phayre's
report now forwarded is being printed, and a copy of it will be furnished to the
Government of India as soon as possible.
No. 367-1234, dated Baroda, 4th November 1874 (Confidential.)
From—Resident of Baroda,
To—Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. .
In submitting to Government the accompanying khureeta An important letter usually sent in an elaborate textile pouch, dispatched as part of the royal or diplomatic correspondence of rulers and elites. addressed to
their Excellencies the Viceroy and Governor-General and the Governor of
Bombay by His Highness the Gaekwar, I have the honor to observe that the
Resident's letter No. 134-494, dated 9th iVlay present attack appears to be a mere repe-
1874, and accompaniment. tition of that made upon Government
^Government letter No. 2951, dnted 27th May through their representative at His High-
Resident's letter No. 273B., dated 22nd June ness' Court in May last, vide the COr-
'livIrlTreC'Na 3594, dated 26th Jnne respondence quoted in the margin on
1874, with copy of Government of India letter which occasion a courteous but firm obe-
No. 1225P., dated 6th June 1874. dience to the orders of Government led
to precisely the same results as in the instance under report.
2. The Resident then incurred His Highness the Gaekwar's odium in
consequence of his non-participation in the ceremonies attendant upon His
Highness' marriage with Luxmeebaee. Now he has incurred a renewed
expression of the same kind of strong personal feeling owing to the delayed
recognition by Government of Luxmeebaee's son as the legal heir to the Baroda
guddee, the non-participation by the Resident in the ceremonies usually offered
at the birth of a legal heir, non-compliance with His Highness' request for
increased military honors to Nana Sahib as Pritinidhi, the events that took
place at the time of the Dussera, and finally the kind warning given personally
to His Highness a few days ajw reofardins: the non-commencement of reform
of any kind.
3. The enclosed khureeta An important letter usually sent in an elaborate textile pouch, dispatched as part of the royal or diplomatic correspondence of rulers and elites. to the address of His Excellency the Viceroy
and Governor-General of yesterday's date may be thus briefly summarised :—
[a.) That it is solely the Resident's personal hostility and open want of
sympathy that is delaying the reform so urgently enjoined by His Excellency
the \ iceroy, and is aggravating the exceptionally difficult position in which
Mr. Dadabhai and the new administration are placed, in illustration of which
two serious cases are adduced. First the action taken by the Resident in the
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