The Baroda Crisis

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.

[1] Traditionally, most notably put forward by Ian Copland,[2] the Baroda Crisis can be viewed as a demonstration of governmental rivalries of British India.

'Official warfare' had long been occurring between the existing presidencies of Bombay and Calcutta, however, the Baroda crisis intensified the conflicts.

the Foreign Secretary, believed that India should be more centralised, which led to Calcutta increasingly attempting to break into Bombay's sphere of influence.

Phayre had been established as unfit for residency long before the crisis began, but due to the volatile political situation, he was allowed to remain.