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(viii) Mandabissi with 3 sub-divisions and 39 villages. 
(ix) Kassipore with 2 sub-divisions and 128 villages. 
(x) Mohalpatna with 8 sub-divisions and 107 villages. 
(xi) Chandragiri with 2 sub-divisions and 21 villages. 
(xii) Bisamgiri with 2 sub-divisions and 23 villages. 
Dappore Estate. 1 Gara. 
(xiii) Dadpore with 8 sub-divisions and 109 villages. 
LangIGARH Estate, 3 GARHS. 
(xiv) Lanjigarh with 5 sub-divisions and 89 villages. 
xv) Moonda with 1 sub-division and 16 villages. 
(xvi) Bhoortee with 1 sub-division and 34 villages. 
Korwapat Estate, | Garu. 
(xvii) Korlapat with 11 sub-divisions and 105 villages. 
Mapanpur Estate, 1 Garu. 
(xviii) Madanpur with 5 Taluqs. 
(a) Madanpur with 5 sub-divisions and 75 villages. 
(6) Mohangiri with 2 sub-divisions and 24 villages. 
(c) Japrang with 4 sub-divisions and 38 villages. 
(d) Oorladoni with 3 sub-divisions and 38 villages. 
(e) Burka with 1 sub-division and 29 villages. 
It requires no great perspicacity to see that the so-called 
Talugs of the Madanpur Garh, each regularly subdivided, are 
in reality Garhs which have been re-christened Taluqs. The 
Taluq, as an area intermediate between the Garh and the 
‘Sub-division,” has no parallel in the rest of the dependency. 
And the obvious explanation of the anomaly is that Kalahandi 
originally contained not 14 but 18 Garhs, and when four others 
were ceded from Jeypore the five Garhs in the Madanpur Estate 
were telescoped into one and called Taluqgs, simply in order to 
retain the conventional division of the Dependency into 
Atharah Garh. 
_L. Kalahandi i is the main link in the chain of evidence 
to have been formerly whi voce in Chhattisgarh. The divi- 
sion of the country into 18 Garhs, and of each Garh into Taluqs 
1 See , Chapter VII. 
