1919.] The Rajput Kingdoms of Mediaeval Chhattisgarh. 233 
social development the tribal system had become to some extent 
artificial. Their own subdivisions were not the natural forma- 
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ordinarily accommodating character of the Hindu genius, its 
aptitude for amalgamation and compromise. Just as in religi- 
queror felt no antagonism to indigenous methods of adminis- 
tration. It is a common-place to contrast the bigotry of 
Islam and the horrors of Mahomedan conquest, involving the 
found in local histories. We find the ond ‘‘ Patmajee ”’ 
installing his Rajput conqueror as one Raja succeeds another 
in the Kalahandi Kingdom. In the wild Sarguja State we 
read that ‘‘ there is hardly an instance of the permanent depri- 
“ly extirpated by the Rajah, but public opinion seems to have 
‘‘ required that some scion of the house should be sought out 
“and vested with the lands belonging to his ancestors.” 
(Roughsedge’s Report, para. 33.) And, as we can plainly see, 
the whole land system of Chhattisgarh was a compromise and 
lakh of rupees from the town but “‘ no violence was done to the 
‘Raja Raghunath Singh who in fact was permitted to carry 
“on the government in the name of the Bhonslas.”! (Chis- 
This extraordinary arrangement continued for seven years until 
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Raghunath Singh “ threw off the Mahratta yoke.” Even then, when he 
