238 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
in a footnote to an “‘ account of the Haihaibansi kings and 
‘their dominions prepared in 1579 A.D. by the Dewan of Raja 
‘‘ Lachman Singh and given to Mr. Chisholm, Settlement Officer 
‘of Bilaspur, by the Dewan’s descendants.” 
8. ot a single one of these old documents is now extant. 
The family of Rewaram, though remembered in Ratanpur, can 
no longer be traced. In 1908 I wrote to Mr. Chisholm in retire- 
“ returned.’”’ He was unable to give me further information 
cn them by the few Europeans who examined them and I, 
therefore, presume that they were genuine records of mediaeval 
Chhattisgarh. 
69. The only two persons who have given us any idea of 
the contents of these documents are Messrs. Chisholm and 
Hewitt, but their inferences therefrom are so discrepant that 
it is necessary to deal separately with what each of them has 
told us. Mr. Hewitt’s account of these old documents is as 
follows :— 
“If the Deshboee [Deshbahi] and the lists of T'alugdars 
‘«dated 1629 Sambat 1563 A.D. ........ are genuine, and I 
“see no reason to doubt it, they show that in the time of 
‘* Kaliyan Singh and his son the chiefs of Ruttunpore were lords 
‘paramount of a very large extent of country extending far 
‘beyond the limits of Chuteesgurh which formed, however, the 
‘«“ most valuable portion of their dominions. Besides Chutees- 
Ramghur 
ee ioe 
Sirgooja 
ng 0 
pe ge Chokee } 12,000 
Sumbulpore 
Bustar } 5,015 
Phuljhar 6,000 
