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the 18th Century. The Deogarh in the Santal Parganas, and 
in the Bamra Feudatory State, Bengal, may, perhaps, be dis- 
missed as mere backwaters of civilization. There is a Deogarh 
fame, such as it is, to its ancient remains of the later Gupta 
and Chandel periods, and its real consequence appears to 
have terminated many centuries before the accession of Shah 
‘Alam II. Deogarh-Bariya, the chief town of a etty state 
villages. Attention may be also recalled to the fact that 
none of these localities is referred to by the historians. 
e only place of that name which is mentioned in the 
Mughal Chronicles and other historical writings, is the Deogarh 
in Chhindwara district, Central Provinces, and it is mentioned 
not once or twice, but a dozen times. Passing by the earlier 
references in the ‘Badishahnama’ of ‘Abdul Hamid Lahori (Bid/. 
Ind. text, I, Pt. ii, pp. 110-111 and 230-2), where it is asso- 
from its ruler or ‘ marzban,’ Koka Singh, the handsome sum 
of fifteen lacs as arrears, and the promise of an annual peshkash 
the territory of Deogadh to its Raja with authority to govern 
it absolutely as before. (Maasir, 102.) We are next informed 
that in 1097 A.H. Bakht-buland was installed as zamindar of 
Deogadh-Islamgadh in the twenty-ninth year—1907 A.H. 
(I bid., 273.) _Khafi Khan also notices the invasion of Deogadh 
by Diler Khan in 1077 A.H. and expressly states that its 
frontiers were conterminous or marched with those of Chanda. 
= Unein lols day) a5 88519 (Bibl. Ind. text, 205-7.) We read 
again in his account of the events of the 43rd year of 
