[British India - Baroda (Vadodara)]. Correspondence Connected with the Deposition of Mulhar Rao (Baroda No. 5).

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Records of the Baroda Crisis, a political crisis that took place in British India between 1872 and 1876 in Baroda, a Gujarati princely state. The crisis began when Colonel Robert Phayre was appointed as the British Resident of Baroda. An increasingly negative relationship with Malhar Rao Gaekwad, the Gaekwar of Baroda, culminated in the Baroda Enquiry which found "serious misgovernment" in the state. The present work presents official correspondence conjoint with the findings of two separate commissions investigating imputations made against Malhar Rao. The first, which submitted its report to the Government of India on 25 February 1874, treated concerns over the financial and administrative condition of the state of Baroda; the second, which concluded in April 1875, was responsible for enquiring as to whether the Gaekwar had orchestrated the attempted poisoning of Colonel Robert Phayre, former Resident at Baroda, and whether he was to be held responsible for the mismanagement of the state. The attempted murder of Phayre led to the Gaekwar being convicted of high treason. By order of the Secretary of State for India, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Malhar Rao was deposed on 10 April 1875 and exiled to Madras, where he died in obscurity in 1882.