[Receipt of Donation No-114]

Summary

This single-page document is a printed receipt of the Swatantra Party’s Maharashtra Region office at Sassoon Building, 143, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-1 (Tel No. 253085). Receipt No. 114, dated 12-8-1975, acknowledges the sum of Rs. 25/- (Twenty-five only) received with thanks from Mr M. R. Masani as his donation for August 1975. The receipt bears the Hon. Treasurer’s signature.

As an administrative artefact rather than an argumentative text, the receipt has documentary rather than editorial value. It captures a routine monthly contribution by Minoo Masani to the Swatantra Party in the month after the Emergency was declared (June 1975), and — since the Swatantra Party had formally dissolved into the Bharatiya Lok Dal in August 1974 — is evidence that a Maharashtra Region office of the Party continued to operate and receive donations under the Swatantra name into mid-1975.

Key points

• Printed receipt form of the Swatantra Party, Maharashtra Region, headquartered at Sassoon Building, 143, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-1.
• Receipt No. 114, dated 12-8-1975 (12 August 1975).
• Acknowledges Rs. 25/- (“Twenty-five only”) received from Mr M. R. Masani.
• Recorded purpose: donation for August 1975.
• Signed by the Hon. Treasurer (Receiver’s Signature).
• Contact telephone printed on the receipt: 253085.