JOURNAL 
OF 
THE ASTATIC SOCIETY. 
No. 18.—June, 1833. 
I.—On the Marriage Rites and Usages of the Jdts of Bharatpur. 
By §.'¥€. Lushington, Esq. C. S. 
[Read at the Meeting of the Asiatic Society, March 27, 1833.] 
In the month of May, 1832, the present Raja of Bharatpur*, Bat- 
WANT SINGH, was married to a daughter of the Bechore Raja, a Jat 
chief, of a very respectable family residing near Gwalior. 
Though there is no mention of the Bechore Rajas in the ‘‘ Ayeen 
Akberi,” nor in any English work on India, that I am acquainted with, 
I am assured by the Bharatpur ministers and other respectable natives 
that the Bechore Princes once possessed territories inthe neighbour- 
hood of Gwalior, which yielded an annual revenue of from three to 
four lakhs of rupees. They add that the greater part of these territo- 
ries are now in the hands of the Sinp1a family, and that the present 
Bechore Raja has only a small Jagér of about fifteen thousand ru- 
pees per annum. 
The Bharatpur Raja was betrothed in 1824 (Samvat 1881), to the 
Bechore Princess, by his father, the late Batpro Sineu, and under 
ordinary circumstances the marriage would have been solemnized many 
years ago. The Hindd law indeed censures the delay of marriage 
(for females) beyond 10 years, but the Bharatpur Jats as ‘‘ Baran- 
Sankdrs or a mixed caste, deriving their origint and military habits 
* Then 14 years of age. 
+ Such is the tradition of the Bharatpur Jats themselves. They assert their 
(spurious) descent from the famous or fabulous Bisex Pat of Bidna, regarding 
whose power, riches, and extent of dominion, many curious tales are still current 
among them. In the “ Biye1-Pau Rasa,”’ a metrical romance or ballad (written 
in Brij Bhakha), the Hind@ scholar will find a full and particular accqunt of this 
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