246 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
story to tell. ‘‘ Under the Haihaibansi Rajahs the feudal prin- 
“ciples of their rule precluded anything in the nature of a 
“system of Revenue. The Rajahs and the members of his 
“family retained no more lands under their own management 
* “ than n were necessary for their comfort and dignity. The rest 
‘ were assigned to their Chiefs who on their a snr sup- 
** plied them. with whatever they required, with money accord- 
“tioned to the land they held. These petty Lords seem, on 
“their part, to have followed the same system, retaining but 
gee tracts of land in their own hands and distributed the 
“ remainder amongst their servants who were at the same time 
z soldiers and cultivators. The judicial authority in import- 
“ant cases they personally exercised, but in all inferior and 
“common occasions they left the chief executive avthority in 
“revenue as well as other matters to the head of each oo 
‘or village who, it may be concluded, did not act upon 
“general or uniform plan. The conquest of the country coe 
“the Marathas changed this state of things and gradually led 
“to the introduction of their Revenue System in all those 
parts of the Province which were sufficiently productive to 
“repay the trouble of the change During the time of Rajah 
* Raghojee Ist (1745-55 A.D. little was done towards estab- 
‘‘ lishing any regularity, although Mohansingh who was ‘left in 
“ charge of the Province y him, was very active and success- 
“ful in subduing many Zamindars and ‘either making their 
“lands Khalsa or subjecting them to tribute 
82. Here in fact we find history repeating itself, and the 
Marathas in the 18th century opposed by a number of chiefs 
in charge of Garhs who have to be reduced individually before 
the foreign domination can be secured, very much, but for the 
Rajah’s presence at Ratanpur and Raipur, as the Haihayas in : 
the 14th century, according to the Khalari Inscription, were 
confronted by “eighteen strongholds of Adversaries.’ e see 
too that the “ Khalsa ” proper existing in Haihaibansi times 
was comprised of such lands only as were “ necessary to the 
comfort and dignity of the royal family” (perhaps no more 
than the 640 villages of the Raipur Garh mentioned above in 
- 6 and a similar area round Ratanpur); that elsewhere 
there are Chiets obviously in charge of the Garhs or Chaurasis 
of which the details are recorded ; ‘and that these Chiefs’ terri- 
tories are subdivided into Taluqgs of which perhaps not more 
than one is held in the chief’s own hands while eS rest are 
distributed among. his (so-called) servants, each o om “ in 
“all inferior and common occasions exercises aro chiet executive 
“ authority i in revenue as well as other matter 
