[Receipt of Donation No-104]

Summary

This single-page item is a printed receipt from the Swatantra Party’s Maharashtra Region office at Sassoon Building, 143, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-1, filled in by hand on 11 February 1975. Numbered Receipt No. 104, it acknowledges a donation of Rs. 25 (“Twenty five only”) received from Mr. M. R. Masani towards “Donation for Feb. 75”, and is signed at the bottom by the Hon. Treasurer.

As a piece of party ephemera, the document has no argumentative content: it is an administrative record of a monthly personal contribution by Minoo Masani — one of the Swatantra Party’s founders — to his own party’s Maharashtra unit less than a year after the party’s dissolution had begun to be discussed nationally. Its value to the archive is as a small but concrete trace of Masani’s continued financial commitment to the Swatantra apparatus in Bombay in early 1975.

Key points

• Pre-printed Swatantra Party (Maharashtra Region) receipt form, letterhead giving the party’s Bombay office at Sassoon Building, 143, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-1 (Tel. No. 253085).
• Serial number: Receipt No. 104.
• Dated 11-2-1975 (11 February 1975).
• Donor recorded as “Mr. M. R. Masani” — i.e. Minoo Masani, the Swatantra Party’s co-founder.
• Amount received: Rs. 25 (written out as “Twenty five only”), with the same figure repeated as “Rs. 25” in the lower-left stamp/box.
• Purpose noted as “Donation for Feb. 75”, suggesting a regular (monthly) subscription rather than a one-off gift.
• Signed at the bottom by the Hon. Treasurer of the Maharashtra Region on behalf of the party.