Letter No.15 C.P. from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Camp Delhi to Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor General and Special Commissioner Baroda
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Letter informing Pelly that those persons detained on suspicion of having been involved in the attempt to poison Colonel Robert Phayre should be kept in confinement and that any witnesses under detention should be detained until the Commission's report has been received and considered. The lett...
Witnesses and List of persons in Custody and police Surveillance
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Statements giving lists of names of individuals in custody or under police surveillance. The statements give the name of the individual, the date of their arrest or surveillance, and either the name of the person whose custody they are in or the police force responsible for the surveillance. 'St...
Letter No.34 of 1875 from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda to The Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Calcutta
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Letter informing Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, that the Special Commission is expected to finish the following week and requesting instructions regarding proceedings against those persons, other than His Highness the Gaekwar, implicated in the plot t...
Cypher Telegram from the Viceroy, Calcutta to Sir Lewis Pelly, Baroda
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Telegram written in cypher, with decoded copy, from Thomas George Baring, Second Baron Northbrook, Viceroy of India to Lewis Pelly instructing him that every possible precaution should be taken to prevent any witness tampering and that more police support was being sent from Bombay.
'Memo. of Instructions for the Guard over the Four Prisoners in the Buildings of the Residency Office'
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Memorandum providing instructions for the guarding and care of four prisoners being detained in the Treasury Building of the Residency. The instructions include their supervision; provision of meals and clothes; and details regarding who they are and aren't permitted to communicate with. A cop...
Letter from George Edwin Seward, Residency Surgeon and Superintendent Guikwar [Gakewar]'s Hospitals, Baroda to Sir Lewis Pelly, Governor General's Agent and Special Commissioner
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Letter enclosing a report from John Extrop who had been deputed by Seward to visit Gunput Rao Bulvunt and ascertain the condition of his health. The letter states his exact medical condition and requests permission to go and visit him and report further on his exact condition. The report by Joh...
Letter No.58 of 1875 from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner administering the Baroda State to Charles Umpherston Aitchison, the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Simla
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Letter forwarding a list of all persons now under arrest or detention or released by the orders of or with the cognizance of the present Baroda Administration. The list consists of thirty-six individuals, of which twenty are under detention or surveillance and lists the locations of these indi...
Pages from the Times of India Reporting on Matters in Baroda Including the Arrest of the Gaekwar
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Four pages from the Times of India, 16 January 1875 containing articles and reports relating to affairs in Baroda. The articles are entitled: The Gaekwar's property Affairs at Baroda Latest telegraphic intelligence: the crisis at Baroda Latest particulars: The surrender of the Guns The court for...
Private Letters to Lewis Pelly from Various Persons Concerning Affairs in Baroda.
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Correspondence relating to the conclusion of the Baroda Commission and the production of the report on its findings, including a minute produced by Lord Northbrook (Thomas George Baring, Second Baron Northbrook, Viceroy of India) on the events of the previous two years and the findings of the Co...
Two pencil notes written by Lewis Pelly, one dated 14 January 1875 and the other 18 January 1875, possibly replies to Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. The notes relate to forty lakhs of money which had allegedly been removed from Baroda and was intende...
