[Receipt of Donation No-113]

Summary

A one-page pre-printed donation receipt (No. 113) issued by the Maharashtra Region office of the Swatantra Party from Sassoon Building, 143, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-1. The blank slip is filled in by hand to acknowledge receipt of Rs. 25/- (Twenty-five only) from Mr. M. R. Masani as his donation for July 1975, dated 14 July 1975 and countersigned in the Hon. Treasurer / Receiver’s Signature block. The document has no argumentative content; its interest is documentary — evidence that Minoo Masani continued to make small monthly donations to the Swatantra Party’s Maharashtra unit in mid-1975, the year the Emergency was declared and roughly a year after the Swatantra Party’s formal dissolution as a national organisation, indicating the party’s Maharashtra regional apparatus was still soliciting and receipting member contributions.

Key points

• Pre-printed receipt form of the Swatantra Party, Maharashtra Region, with telephone number 253085 and a Sassoon Building address at 143 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-1.
• Serial receipt number 113, dated 14-7-1975 (14 July 1975).
• Acknowledges Rs. 25 from Mr. M. R. Masani, described as a ‘donation for July 1975’.
• Signed in the Receiver’s Signature / Hon. Treasurer field.
• Provides documentary evidence that the Swatantra Party’s Maharashtra unit continued regular donation collection in 1975, and that Minoo Masani was among its recurring monthly donors.