1919.] The Rajput Kingdoms of Mediaeval Chhattisgarh. 237 
** pore for that the oppression and calamity which had eresine 
‘‘ the city since the Maharattas had got possession of it 
“destroyed that encouragement which the Brahmans under the 
‘“‘ where and it might naturally be supposed that they had taken 
“ their books and papers with them.”” Whether Captain Blunt 
also failed to render that encouragement which the Brahmans 
were accustomed to receive I cannot say. Anyhow he went 
away empty-handed. 
. Sir R. Jenkins in his Report on the Nagpur Territo- 
ries (p. 91 of reprint of 1901) writing in 1872 refers in passing 
to “an old Deshwai (Deshbahi) or list of villages found at 
Ratanpur.’”’ So presumably some old documents were seen 
of Bilaspur District writing of the Haihaibansis in 1869 says 
(para. 47) : ‘‘ Unfortunately no local annals exist of these from 
‘*in disconnected old dontareate many of them worn and tat- 
‘ tered in the possession of Rewaram Kayasth and Durga Datta 
* Shastri, the descendants, respectively, of a former dewan and 
** priest of the fami ily.” From these he extracts an account 
which is, as he states, meagre and incomplete. He also tells 
us (para. 56) that one of the ‘“‘ Revenue Books" of Kaliyan 
Singh’s period (1536 to 1573 A.D.) was in existence in his time 
containing much interesting information on the condition of 
Chhattisgarh some three centuries ago and he refers to this 
‘* Revenue paper of the time of soe h Kallian Singh” as being 
written in 1560 A.D. (paras. 188 and 215). 
68. Lastly Mr. Hewitt refers to no less than three ancient 
documents in paras. 54 to 62 of his Raipur District Settlement 
Report : 
(1) An abstract statement of the territories and revenues 
of the Ratanpur kingdom pee ge by the order of 
Kaliyan Singh and dated 1526 A.D 
(2) A - of Taluqdars prepared in 1563 A.D. in the be egin- 
wa na reign of Lachhman Singh Kaliyan Singh’s 
(3) A ‘ * Deshbahi a at the same time as this list 
of Taluqdars 
Again, in his ‘‘ Notes on he Early History of Northern 
India ”’ published t in Vol. XX, Part III, Art. VIII of the Royal 
Asiatic Society’s Journal (1888), pie in an article contributed 
to the Asiatic Quarterly Review in April 1887, Mr. Hewitt refers 
