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THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THE GAEKWAR.
WHAT LED UP TO THE DURBAR. INCIDENT.
The following story of what led up to the Durbar incident is related in the Pall Mall Gazette by "One who knows better in reply to a defence of the Gaekwar:-
In the Pall Mall Gazette of October 28th there appeared an article entitled: The Gackwar of Baroda: the Truth about the Durbar Story. By One Who Knows. Under ordinary circumstances, I should not have taken the troublo to correct the false impressions to which the article has given rise. But the statements made therein have been widely reprinted in the Indian native Press, and have been regarded as completely exonerating the Gaekwar, not only from all blame in con. nection with the Darbar incident, but from all criticism respecting the general relations of his Highness with the Gov ernment of India. The high authority of the Pall Mall Grasette is being invoked in India to prove that the Gaekwar has been unjustly attacked. My purpose is to show that there was ample ground for the accusations made at the time, and that the Gackwar is by no means the in-
Who Knows nocent victim"One
suggests him to be. For I also know, and I venture to say that I know very much better than the writer of the artide in question.
The article begins by quoting certain statements publicly made. Of the Dur- bar story it was said that "the whole thing has been greatly exaggerated," and that the Gaakwar had an attack of "nervés." These statements are incor- rect, The Gaokwar is admittedly a rather nervous man, but he has boen a ruling Prince for over thirty years. He bas vast experience of public ceremoniale, and no more suffered from nerves" at Delhi than the Durbar Herald. Whatever he did at the Durbar was not unconscious,
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THE FIRST INDICATION.
"One Who Knows" Ventured to offer Durbar the Gaekwa TB that before the his views at headquarters" as to the form of ceremony to be adopted, and that this action gave offence,** That is nou the What gave offence was that when he arrived at Delhi he wrote letters to headquarters which were deliberately at variance with the forms prescribed for ruling Princes desiring an interview with the Viceroy, a form which no one knows His Highness better than the Gackwer. began as he meant to go on, and his studied informality was perhaps too gently corrected. He proceeded to dis- cuss with other Princes the precise man ner in which the act of homage to the Kign-Emperor was to be performed, but on Durbar Day the Gaekwar was the only ruler who disregarded the official injune tions, with which he had been explicitly He knew the injunctions acquainted. quite well, and bad not hesitated to ex- press his objections to them.
One Who Knows" defends the Gaek- war for appearing at the Durbar in a plain while garment," and says that this is, the costume worn by his Highness on He further says ceremonious occasione. that, having spent much time in England, the Gnokwaris aware that the uote of good breeding here is the opposite of ostentation." If that is the case, one would have expected the King-Emperor
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Press on the day before the Durbar. The THE INSULT TO THE KING-EMPEROR.
The trouble with the Gaekwar is that his head I come to the act of homage. Nizam of Hyderabad made obeisauce first. has been turned by domestic influences, he might gain such a reoutation for "en-
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He has mirable institutions, but there is a reverso a stick; but would any member of the stupid enough and ignorant enough to lightened." His State contains many ad- The facts about his
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Bareda is not a great State, nor is the movement. One Who Knows" evident had been audacions enough to appear before him in open Durbar armed with Backwar&great, or even a very good, ly knows very little about the incident in stick
The use of the stick was an act of effron. ruler. Baroda only includes an area of which Baroda printing-presses were found 8,000 square miles; Hyderabad exceeds to be producing seditious literature. The tery, and so was the episode which fol- 80,000 square miles. The distinction be real difficulty was that the Baroda laws The Dookware lowed. Instead of making the prescribed tween the Gaakwar and other ruling were so defective that the offenders could number of bows, and backing to the edge princes is that, in proportion to the area not be prosecuted. of the dais, the Gackwar strolled up and population of his State, he exacte fur speeches in England have never squared nodded to his Majesty, took no notice of more revenue from his people than any with his acts in India. He has posed as the Queen-Empress at all, turned his back other chief in India. He has no ties of standing in the forefront of social ce on their Majesties (an unpardonable blood with his subjects, for he is a form, yet last year he sought to marry insult in East and West alike), walked off Mahratta, and they are not. There are his daughter to another Prince who The root of the Gaekwar's difficulties the dais, and went away twirling his hundreds of families in England with an already possesses one wife....
There was no mistake about his infinitely longer and prouder lineage than
is that he has formed an utterly false and stick intentione, nor need I emphasise these the Geekwar statements. Thousands saw the act, hun meana herdsman, and serves to explain inflated conception of his "kingly" posi- dreds of thousands have seen it repro- the origin of a ruling house which has tion; thus in pursuance of this conception duced on the cinematograph. The facts existed for less than two hundred years. he has repeatedly tried to flout the Gev are not disputed, even by the Gaekwar The Gaekwar family have never been in ernment of Indie, and at last had the It himself. According to "One Who dependent rulers in a sense which would temerity 50 commit an unwarrantabla in bia bearing towards hie Knows, his Highness says it was warrant the absurd pretensions sometimes error
But when he tore off his advanced by the present prince The ear Sovereign; and that while some of his im- sheer mistake.
Jier Gaekware simply held their State pulses as an administrator are good, he jewels, was that a mistake also?
FELLOW-PRINCES' ANGER.
auder the sufferance of the Peishwa of cares far more about expounding them Poona to whom they paid tribute as feu- to an admiring wait than about carry-OFFICES datorios. Later they became feudatories ing them into effect. of the British Government. The Gaekwar dynasty has no immemorial claims, and born. The founders gained their pos- had never been heard of when Clive was sessione by rapine and pillage, and the records of the State of Baroda are due long story of misgovernment until the British Raj intervened and deposed the NM with Outhouse, Commanding LAND 86 KOWLOON comprising about then ruler in 1876. Had it not been for British help, the State would have been
The present Gaekwar is not even in the swept out of existence a century ago. direct line of descent. He is an obscure collateral, and when the British Govern- rent chose him for high place, he was a humble little boy playing about in a re- moto village.
to be too well-bred to wear his crown. is perfectly true that the Gaekwar usually in pri- wears a plain white garment vate life in India. He often affects the
when it "chuste simplicity becomes his duty to attend any public seremonial at which exalted British per After the Durbar was over the Gaekwar But in his own grew frightened at what he had done Bonages are present. State, on occasion, he is wont to appear Why was he frightened? Because other in much braver array. Those who wish Indian princes, proud and loyal and to see a portrait of the Gackwar as he is chivalrous Rajputs, told him is fierce pecustomed to present himself at times to terms what they thought of his con his own people, may be recommended to duct, said he had brought disgrace up turn to the Sketch of Decembar 27th, them all, and declared that he ought to 1811.
will see the Gaekwar in the receive the geverest marks of the King full uniform of bis "army" a uniform Emperor's displeasure. It was then that which is neither very simple nor very the Gashwar really developed nerve chaste. They will see something else, too. Before any oficial notice had been taken They will see the Gackwar wearing the of his conduct, before the Govern aiguillettes of an aide-de-camp to the ment of India could come to any decision King-Emperor, an honour he does not he volunteered the same night un
and an "apology." All possess. They will further see him wearplanation
India expected his deposition, not for ing the star of an "order" of, his own State above the Star of India, and every hin aggressive lack of respect alone, but Indian Prince understands the alight thus because the Durbar incident was the cul- implied. He wore this same "order" in mination of a series of nets of truenlent the presence of the King-Emperor at the defiance extending over many years. Ho Investiture. But perhaps the point about was saved by the gracious clemency of costume is sufficiently disposed of when the Monarch he had sought to flout at the I say that at the 1903 Durbar the Goek greatest assemblage India has ever wit war wore a white satin robo edged withnessed; but 1. venture respectfully to gold, and the riband of the Star of India. think he was saved unwisely. In 1911 he elected to do homage to the. King-Emperor in cheap white cotton, such as the clerks in his public offices would wear.
REMOVED KIS JEWELS... Mention of orders brings me to the question of the decorations worn by the Gaekwar at the Delhi Durbar. "One Who Knows" asks us to believe that the Geakwar wore no jewels because he was not accustomed to do so. At the 1903 Durbar be wore a "breast-plate" of dis- monds valued at a quarter of a million sterling, as was duly recorded at the time. At the State Ball in 1903 he wore a chain of diamonds. The thing that damas the apologia of "One Who Knows is that the Gaekwar actually arrived at the King-Emperor's Durbar wearing jewels; but, for reasons best known to himself, before the King-Emperor arrived his Highness took them off. There are many who were present who can verify this "nerves" which statement. Was it prompted him to strip his cotton robe of Jowels
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The Viceroy arrived at the amphi- thestra twenty minutes before the King- The programme laid down Emperor. than everybody was to rise when his Ex- oellency drove into the arena, and to re- main standing until he had taken his place beneath the Imperial canopy. Everybody duly rose, save one man. all that vast assemblage, one man
That one man mained defiantly seated.
Just as was the Geekwar of Baroda the Viceroy's carriage drew abreast of the spot where the Gaekwar was sitting, the British Resident at Baroda was observed to bend down and say something to his Highness.
The Gaekwar jumped up as if he had been shot, but almost instantly resumed his sent before the Viceroy had alighted from his carriage. A hundred thousand people, including the greatest Princes in India, were standing at that moment. Again one asks whether the action of the Gaekwar was due to
narya ??3
For the Geckwar of Baroda has been in some ways a very unwholesome in- fluence in India for the last decade or more. I have always believed his pri vate life to be above reproach, and shall certainly not follow "One Who Knowe in discussing a case which figured in the
The word, Gackwar
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