HC Deb 06 July 1905 vol 148 cc1315-7
MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)

To ask the Secretary of State for India, having regard to the fact that Bapu Raghunath, who at the time of his death

excluding the corn tax, during the last twenty years; and also to state-what this amount would represent per head of the population.

(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.)—

in 1837 was Dewan of Dhar, and in recognition of his services to the British Government was in the enjoyment of a grant of property in the State of Dhar in perpetuity to himself and descendants, will he ascertain from the Dhar State under what circumstances the forfeiture of the property belonging to Ramchandra Rao, one of Bapu's six sons, for alleged complicity in the Mutiny, has been held to include the property belonging to Bapu's other sons; and will he bring; under the notice of the Dhar State the claims made to this property by their descendants,—viz., Krishna Rao Raghunath and Shanka Rao Bhagwant.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) I must again refer the hon. Member to the Answer given by my predecessor in office to his Question on the 12th May, 1902,† when he was informed that the Government of India agreed that it was impossible to restore the confiscated estates to the family. I see no reason, AS I informed the hon. Member on the 9th June, 1904,‡ to interfere with the discretion of the Native State in the matter.