§ Mr. REESasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Government has any information regarding the measures taken by His Highness the Maharajah Sindhia to stamp out sedition in the Native State of Gwalior?
The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (The Master of Elibank)The seditionists made efforts to excite disloyalty to the British Government in Gwalior, but His Highness the Maharajah, who, as the House is aware, is one of the most important loyal and efficient of Indian princes, at once took effective steps to cope with the situation. Thirty-nine persons have recently been tried by Courts of the Gwalior State, apparently as members of a secret society in Gwalior engaged in a conspiracy to use criminal force. Of these 33 were sentenced on the 4th instant to various terms of imprisonment ranging from seven years to three months, two were pardoned, and four acquitted.