Enclosures of letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.11, dated 15 January 1875: Nos. 3 to 45 of Abstract of Contents, from the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Fort William [‎92r] (83/100)

raja King , who had expressed a wish to see me. I replied that there was sickness in
my house and that I had my duties to attend to, and therefore could not arrange
to go to the Maharaja at that time.
After the Commission left Baroda, Yeshwantrao, Salim, and Rowjee all
urged tne to go and see the Maharaja, and I at last consented. On a fixed day
I went to the house of Yeshwantrao, where Rovvjee and Salim also met me,
and we went together by way of the Xuzzer Bagh and a private entrance to an
upstair private room into which Yeshwantrao brought the Maharaja and intro
duced me. The Maharaja first remarked that I was a scamp and a bad man
and had never been favorable to, or assisted him, but the three men, Yesh-
wantrao, Salim, and Rowjee, assured the Maharaja that they had all spoken to
me, and that I was now fully prepared to carry out his orders and act up to his
wishes. The Maharaja then requested me to keep him regularly informed
through Salim of all that transpired 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. , to which I consented.
On this occasion a man named Karhhie accompanied Rowjee from the camp to
the palace, but he did not appear before the Maharaja. About 20 or 25 days
later I again visited the Maharaja in company with the same people and in the
same manner. Nothing particular transpired at this visit beyond furnishing
the Maharaja with all the information we had regarding matters at the Resi
dency.
In the month of April I accompanied the Resident to Nowsaree; the
Maharaja also came there and lived in his Hawalee, while Colonel Phayre was
located in a bungalow close to the Railway station, and about a mile from the
Maharaja's Hawalee. Salim and Yeshwantrao lived in the Resident's com
pound.
I believe Rowjee used to visit the Maharaja at Nowsaree, and through
Salim he obtained for me a present of Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 25 (3, which at my request was
paid to one of my brothers at Baroda.
About a month or more after the Resident's and Maharaja's return from
Nowsaree I visited the Gaekwar again in company with Rowjee, Salim, and
Yeshwantrao. We met as usual at the house of the latter, who took us before
the Maharaja. We first gave him all the information of what had been going on
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 then Salim and Yeshwantrao remarked to the Maha
raja King that we (Rowjee and I) had not received anything on account of his recent
marriage with Luxmee Bai. He said very well that he would see about it. We
then left and a few days after Salim brought me Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 800, of which I gave
him Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 100, and I believe I paid 490 to Rowjee, from which sum he was
to pay Jugga Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 100.
About two months later I again visited the Maharaja in company with
Rowjee We met as before at the house of Yeshwantrao, and he and Salim
took us'before the Maharaja. We first informed the Maharaja of all that had
been coing on at the Resideney, after which ho remarked that Colenel Phayre
was very bard and doing great zoolum to him, and asked if \\c could and
would consent to put something in his food. I replied that m my position I
have no opportunity to do this, upon which Yeshwantrao and Sahm began o
nersuadc us by saving that if we only consent to do this job the Maharaja would
reward us in such a manner that we should not be required to serve any longer,
and that our families should also be handsomely provided for, and that the
remainder of our lives would he spent in ease and comfort. Rowjee then sa.d
*V •' r ersres^ss:
Yeshwantrao " AVc left, and the following day Salim
the powder was within the upper folds of my ,urban,
She noxunorning I gave the packet to Rowjee while he was sitting on the
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