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Deogarh, in consequence of disturbances in his country, and 
the superior force of those who disputed the inheritance, had » 
fled to the Court of Aurangzeb, and had received the title of 
Buland-bakht (sic) upon his becoming a Musulman. Upon 
hearing of the death of his competitor, he hastened back to 
appointed to collect the tribute. He now joined Ram Raja 
in plundering the country.” (Muntakhabu-l-Lubab in Elliot and 
Dowson, VII, 364; Bzbl. Ind. text, II, 461.) 
e now turn for light to the ‘ Imperial Gazetteer,’ we 
read that Chanda is “the southernmost district of the Central 
Provinces in the Nagpur division.....From the time of Akbar 
until the days of the Marathas, the Chanda princes seem to 
have been tolerably independent and powerful, for in their own 
annals and in those of the Deogarh line, we find them recorded 
as gaining an important victory over the latter rising Gond 
power in the middle of the seventeenth century..... 4n 51, 
the Gonds were ousted, and the district passed under the con- 
trol of the Marathas, forming from this period, a portion of 
the Nagpur Kingdom.” (Ed. 1908, Vol. X, pp. 148 and 150-1.) 
In another place we are informed that “ Deogarh, the head- 
quarters of the old Gond dynasty of Chhindwara and Nagpur, 
is a village about 24 miles south-west of Chhindwara, pictures- 
Chanda, and to take first place among Gond States.” Towards 
the end of the seventeenth century, Bakht-buland “went to 
Delhi and entered the service of Aurangzeb. He is supposed 
to have gained by his military achievements, the favour of the 
_ Emperor, by whom he was persuaded 
He was acknowledged as Raja of Deogarh 
many new towns and villages, also 
Nagpir..... The subsequent fall of the Gond dynasty and 
acquisition of the Deogarh Kingdom “ a aa Bhonsla belong 
e compiler of the article on Nagpir declares that there 
is no historical record of Nagpar prior to the 
- the eighteenth century, when it formed part of the Gond Kingdom 
of Deogarh in Chhindwara. Bakht Buland, the reigning prince 
of Deogarh, proceeded to Delhi, and appreciating the advantages 
of the civilization which he there witnessed, determined to set 
about the development of his own territories. To this end, he 
invited Hindu artificers and husbandmen to settle in the plain 
country, and founded the city of Nagpar. His successor, 
Chand Sultan, continued the work of civilization, and removed 
the capital to Nagpar. On Chand Sultan’s death in 1739, there 
were disputes as to the succession, and his widow invoked the 
