[Receipt of Donation]

Summary

A single-page printed receipt from the Swatantra Party, Maharashtra Region (Sassoon Building, 143, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-1), acknowledging a donation received from Mr. M. R. Masani. Receipt No. 129, dated 2.11.1975, records the sum of Rs. Twenty Five only, described as a donation for the month of December 1975. The card carries the receiver’s signature and is countersigned as issued by the Honorary Treasurer of the party.

The document has no expository content; it is a bookkeeping artifact from the last months of the Swatantra Party’s organisational life in Bombay. Its interest is documentary: it evidences Minoo Masani’s continued financial patronage of the party’s Maharashtra unit during the Emergency period, only weeks after the June 1975 declaration.

Key points

• Printed receipt form of the Swatantra Party, Maharashtra Region, headquartered at Sassoon Building, 143, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-1 (Tel No. 253085).
• Receipt No. 129, dated 2 November 1975.
• Records a donation of Rs. 25 (Twenty Five) received from Mr. M. R. Masani.
• The contribution is designated as a donation for the month of December 1975.
• Signed by the receiver and issued under the authority of the Honorary Treasurer.
• Bears a manuscript reference number ‘1173’ at the top-left, apparently an archival index mark.
• Documents ongoing patronage of the Swatantra Party organisation during the Emergency period.