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charge just as his overlord the Diwan regulated the Garh and 
as his underling the Gaontia regulated the village. 
CHAPTER V. 
THe NUMERICAL BASIS OF THIS TERRITORIAL DISTRIBUTION. 
24. This concludes the first stage of my argument, the 
object of which has been to establish the existence at one time 
pectively, with the Raj, the Garh and the Taluq. 
25. Did the Talug regularly consist of 12 and the Garh 
of 84 villages, and were the Raj composed strictly of 18 Garhs, 
the inference would be irresistible that the system was not a 
natural development from within, but was imposed by a single 
paramount authority from without. We might, for instance 
suppose that the Rajputs who extended their domination over 
Chhattisgarh during the 10th to 15th centuries carved it up 
for administrative purposes into 12 village talugs, seven of 
which went to a Garh while 18 Garhs went to a kingdom. 
26. This view would seem to receive some support from 
Elliott’s contention (in his Glossary quoted in para. 15 
“not even half a hundred....... An extract from Doomsday 
“Book shows how little uniformity prevailed with respect to 
‘the area and number of manors contained within eac 
‘Hundred. Thus we see that Hundreds were never originally 
om 
“equally partitioned and in this respect they differ 
enquiries were more particularly concerned, there is no ques- 
tion but that in Chhattisgarh the numerical system had no 
exact significance. Even in the North-West Provinces Elliott's 
view was questioned by his editor who, in a footnote to the 
