1919.] The Rajput Kingdoms of Mediaeval Chhattisgarh. 215 
than 35 Garhs are shown as containing exactly 750 villages each, 
indicate was rea) enough. Grant, on p. 79 of his Introduction 
to the C.P. Gazetteer of 1870, quotes a passage from some 
manuscript notes written by Sleeman in 1825 (now unfortu- 
nately lost) which probably gives us as Grant says “ a very fair 
idea of the internal polity of the Gond principality ” of Garha- 
Mandla. Sleeman wrote: ‘“ Under these Gond Rafas the (Nar- 
nt found in the occupation of the soil 
moreover very remarkable that Manu 
ed 
also Tod’s Rajasthan under *‘‘ Annals of Haravati”’ where 
Macavati-nagari with its 52 castles is identified with Garha-mandla. 
gram Sa was merely aping the Rajputs in boasting of his 
52 Garhs. 
