1919.) The Rajput Kingdoms of Mediaeval Chhattisgarh. 209 
+ * Colonel Agnew’s to the Resident, will show!....... ‘The 
‘Gaontias here are the heads of the spent in which they 
=. ‘reside, and cannot hold office in more than one village ; they 
‘are almost invariably inhabitants of the country. The Patels 
‘on the contrary have authority over a Taloog or several 
‘ villages and are frequently strangers who have obtained the 
“situation from interest....... Against the Gaontias I have 
very seldom met with complaints from the ryots, but against 
‘<the latter they are frequent. n consequence of these com- 
He ‘plaints the Patels, called in Chuteesgurh Daos, were set aside 
whenever possible’ OTS eee But, though the Taloogq- 
“are still in many cases well known to the people, more es- 
“ pecially in the jungles where there has been less change... .. 
some instances the T'aloogas were found at the Settlement 
‘‘[of 1869] in the hands of men who had held them from the 
“time of the Haihaibansi Rajas.” 
20. 
of the Taluqdari system in po eerste which we possess, and 
his appreciation of the scanty survivals which existed in his 
time is to be attributed to the fact that he was interested in 
early tribal institutions. He continued his studies = this 
direction when Commissioner of Chota Nagpur, and was able 
to establish the identity of the “ Talugdart Paes s of ‘Chhat. 
tisgarh with the “‘ Patti system” further ea paper on 
specifically refers to the existence in the Central Provinces 
(meaning of course Chhattisgarh) of the - “ Parha or tribal 
territory, known locally as the Talooqua,” and treats it as 
analogous to the tribal grouping of the Hos aa Mundas 
The similarity of this Patti system of Chota N agpur t 
the Taluqdari system described by Mr. Hewitt in Chhattisgarh 
is apparent from the following extract (p. 119 et seg) from a 
book called ‘‘ The Mundas and their Country” by Mr. 8. C. Roy. 
1 On page 32 of Colonel _(then Major) Agnew’ s Report of 1820 on 
Chhattisgarh we read : It 
‘*was established by ‘as Mahrattas soon after their conquest. of the 
**country as a means, there is every reason to suppose, of providing for 
‘* the needy Brahmans of their own re They are the superiors of 
So far as this passa e leads one to infer _ that the —— ee _the 
country into Calas: i sad 
“age introduced by the Marathas it is pacer incorrect. That this is so 
is clearly shown by the traditions of the pore ey the evidence we 
possess in the present Zamindari estates, and als the passage in 
paragraphs 74 and 75 of Mr. Hewitt’s Settloment Topoek of 1869 above 
quoted, 
