60 Girindra Natli Dutt— History of the Hutiva Raj. [Mar. 



family. The 83rd Raja, Jai Mai, seems to have flourished during the 

 period when Baber defeated Mahommed Lodi* and appointed Darya Khan 

 governor of Behar (1529) and the 86th "Raja who obtained the title of 

 Maharaja was Kallyan Mull who flourished in the reign of Akbar in 

 1600 A.D. and made Kallyanpur his seat. The 87th in descent, Khem- 

 karan, obtained both the title of Maharaja Bahadur and Shahi in the 

 reign of Jahangir 1625 A.D. The 95th who flourished in about 1719 

 was Maharaja Jubraj Shahi who wrested Pergannah Seepah, which still 

 forms a portion of the Raj, from Raja Kabul Mahmud of Barheria and 

 the 98th Maharaja Sirdar Shahi who flourished till 1747 invaded the 

 principality of Majhauli, in Gorruckpur, and demolished their fortress. 

 One of the conditions on which Sirdar Shahi made peace with the Maj- 

 hauli Raja was that the latter was not to go about with Nishan and 

 Dunkas, ensigns of Rajaship, until he had re-taken these by force from 

 the Hosseypore (Hutwa) Rajas. These Nishan and Dunkas of Maj- 

 hauli are said to be still in possession of the Tumcohi Rajas, the elder 

 branch of the Hutwa Raj family, residing in Gorruckpore District. The 

 99th of the line was Maharaja Fateh Shahi Bahadur who was a rebel 

 against the British Government in 1767. At the end of the year 1767 

 when the Revenue Collector of Sircar Saran demanded rent on behalf of 

 the Company Fateh Shahi not only refused to pay but gave fight to 

 the Company's troops sent against him in consequence and it was with 

 much difficulty that these troops succeeded in expelling him from Hossey- 

 pore and his Raj was farmed out by the Government. Fateh Shahi retired 

 into the jungles bordering on the then Independent Dominion of the 

 Vizeer of Oudh and the Province of Behar and commenced depreda- 

 tions making raids into the District, to plunder villages and stop the 

 collections of revenue and killed the Government farmer Govind Ram. 

 The Raj was then farmed out by Government to his cousin Babu Basant 

 Shahi and one Mir Jhumla, both of whom he killed in a night attack and 

 sent the head of the former to his wife at Hosseypore who with her hus- 

 band's head on her lap ascended the funeral pyre entrusting his minor 

 son, Mohesh Dutt Shahi to the charge of a Rajput feudal lord Dhujjoo 

 Singh. By his secure position in the jungle Fateh Shahi baffled all at- 

 tempts of the British troops to seize his person or to check his depreda- 

 tions. The Government of Warren Hastings declared Fateh Shahi to 

 have forfeited his zemindary and wrote to the Nawab of Oudh to settle the 

 part of the zemindary lying in his dominion with the Government far- 

 mer with whom the rest of his zemindary was settled ; but nothing was 

 done as the British Government was soon after deeply engrossed with 



# Copper coins of the Lodis are often found in these parts. The author found 

 some as also the former D.S.P., Mr. Knyvett, near Katya outpost in 1898. 



