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Letter from Gunpatrao and Khanderao, Gaikwads, Baroda to Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General, and Special Commissioner, Baroda [14v] (4/8)
The record is made up of 4 folios. It was created in 29 Mar 1875. 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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uoolcs or allowances from the Baroda State is itself a strong proof of their
permanent disconnection with the Gaikwads of Baroda.
5. That your Memorialists most respectfully submit that it is needless to
mention here of the claim of the infant-child of Laxmibai, as it is on all hands
declared, that the marriage of Laxmibai being utterly illegal and without any
precedence, the issue of such marriage (being a full-grown child of nine months),
after five months from the date of the marriage, cannot necessarily be legitimate.
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0, 1 hat ^ oui Lxceliency s Memorialists most respectfully beg to refer for
the correctness of this, their Memorial, to Sir Lewis Felly, who has always
show n them marked consideration and kindness, ever since his arrival as your
i xcellency's Agent and Special Commissioner at Baroda.
/. That your Memorialists most respectfully submit and pray that their
claims to the (xadi of Baroda will receive the favourable consideration of your
Excellency in Council, if this found necessary to effect a change in the adminis
tration of Baroda,
And your Excellency's Memorialists, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.
GUNPATRAO and KHANDERAO, GAIKWADS.
Baroda, 2 ( Jtli March, 1875.
[True Copy,]
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Letter enclosing a memorial submitted for the attention of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India containing their claims to the Gadi (throne) of Baroda.
The memorial contains details of their ancestry in support of their claim, and of the claim of Sadashivrao and their reasons for it not being supported. The memorial also contains a handwritten note by Lewis Pelly regarding correspondence in 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. records which supports some of the statements made by Gunpatrao and Khanderao in regards to Sadashivrao.
A genealogical table of the Gaikwads of Baroda is also enclosed with the letter and memorial.
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- Letter from Gunpatrao and Khanderao, Gaikwads, Baroda to Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General, and Special Commissioner, Baroda
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- 13r:16v
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- Gaekwad, Gunpat Rao
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