(१०६) मल्हारराव महाराज गायकवाड यांचा खरा इतिहास. मन शुद्ध नव्हतें, इतकेच त्या कलमावरून कळून येत नाहीं; पण ज्या राष्ट्राचे ते रेसिडेंट होते व ज्या राष्ट्राचे हक्क सांभाळणे हे त्यांचे कर्तव्यकर्म होतें, त्यांचे मन पवित्र नव्हते असे निदर्शनास येतें, सबब आम्ही लिहून त्याचा शब्दशः येथें तर्जुमा केला आहे तो असा त्या राष्ट्राविषयों देखील ते कलम टिपेत साद्यंत
- “ परराष्ट्राशी संबंध " या वाक्यामध्ये गायकवाड सरकारास खंडणी देणारे गुजराय
देशांतील संस्थानिक आणि हिंदुस्थानांतील लांबवरची इतर संस्थाने यांचा समावेश होतो असे मला वाटते. वरील चार कलमांपैकी दोन कलमें अर्जी मागे पडली आहेत असे जे माझे म्हणणे आहे त्यापैकी पहिल्या कलमाविषयींचा संबंध गायकवाड यांस खंडणी देणाऱ्या गुजरायेंतील संस्थानिकांकडेस लागतो. मला अशी आशा आहे की, या संबंधाने मी थोडे दिवसांत सरकाराकडे निराळा रिपोर्ट पाठवीन, आणि त्यांत मी दाखवून देईन कों, गायकवाडाबरोबर त्यांच्या शेजारी संस्थानिकांचे सरहद्दीविषयों व जमिनीविषयों जे वाद आहेत व वतनाबद्दल व गिरास हक्कावद्दल जे दावे आहेत . "By the term foreign relations, I understand, relations with all States in foreign Guzerath, even thongh tributary to the Gaekwar, as well as the more distant states in India; and it is to the former that I particularly refer when I say that our exclusive management of them is a dead letter. I hope within a few days to be in a position to address a separate report to Government upon this subject, showing that, owing to our not maintaining a sufficiently authoritative attitude with regard to the final settlement of boundary and land disputes, Giras and Wanta cases, ques- tions of jurisdiction, &c., &c., between the Gackwar Government and its neighbours, there is an extensive failure of justice, affecting many thousands of poor people; because Gaikwar Government, in order to prevent the settlement of such questions, or evade the execution of decisions regarding them when adverse to their side, raise all sorts of frivolous excuses which can only be put down by the Resident, under the authority of Government, being empowered to insist upon the award, and decisions on such cases being carried out after certain conditions have been fulfilled. The question is a large, and has been generally supposed to be an intricate one, but I can assure the Govornment that all difficulties will be removed and the whole country be soon tranquilized by our authoritatively announcing to the Gaikwar Government that they are independent in the management of their internal affairs, so long as the laws of humanity and civilization are not violated by them, but that in all matters of an international character, in which the interests of foreign states are concerned, as well as their own, they must submit to the decisions of the Resident on the part of Government as final, and, not as at present, protract land and boundary disputes and all kinds of petty questions for years and years, solely with the object of retaining possession of lands of huks which have probably come into their hands by acts of aggression. Unfortunately as I think, Government has not been made acquainted with one half of the frivolous objections and obstacles whereby the Gaekwar Darbar has been in the habit opposing progress and I believe, I shall be borne out by neighbouring Political Agents in the opinion that the case admits of no delay, no middle course, but simply that in questions of an international character they must obey the orders of Government at once through the Resident, or incur the indignity of having those orders enforced against their will. Two of the Gaekwar's principal advisers at the present moment are men who, having been discharged from the Government service, delight in throwing every possible difficulty in the way that they can. " (See Blue book No. I Page 8 Section 10.)
