274 On the Marriage Rites and Usages (Junz, 
from the Lunar (Chandravanst) race of Rajpits, and possessing at 
the same time the patient industry, agricultural skill, and religious 
laxity of the Sddra or servile classes, do not strictly adhere to the 
minutie of Hindi law. Whilst they retain many parts of the ancient 
ritual they omit others, and substitute in their place peculiar forms and 
usages (as will be noticed hereafter), which though evident innovations 
are held, by them, in the highest esteem. 
But in this particular case the delay alluded to arose not from Jat 
laxity. It was owing in the first place to the untimely death of the 
late Raja Batpro Sineu, and the troubles arising out of that event, 
which were terminated only by the capture of Bharatpur, in January 
1826, and the restoration of his son BaLwant Sineu, a minor, to the 
masnad; and secondly, to the domestic intrigues and contentions 
which took place at the capital between the Maji or Rant mo- 
ther and the Regent ministers, as to the selection of a Géra or 
spiritual adviser for the young Raja. The Majz is eldest wife 
of the late Raja, and step-mother of the present Raja; and as she 
once had the reputation of possessing some ability, the Supreme 
Government nominated her in the first instance to the office of Regent. 
Her subsequent conduct however speedily ‘did away with the favor- 
able opinion entertained of her. It soon became evident that any 
portion of talent or acuteness which she might once have possessed, 
was neutralised by the lasting effects of a vicious education, and by a 
more than ordinary share of feminine caprice and weakness. Being 
naturally of a violent and imperious temper the possession of power 
appeared, day by day, to strengthen and augment the worst features of 
her character, until it at last led her to the commission of acts alike 
injurious to her own reputation and fatal to the interests confided to 
her. 
Remonstrances and exhortations having been in vain addressed to 
her by the British Government, it became necessary to place the ad- 
ministration of Bharatpur affairs in other hands. The Rant was 
accordingly removed from the office of Regent, (a suitable establish- 
great Hindi monarch, who is fabled to have conquered Raja JomESwAR, the 
father of Pintuu Raj, the celebrated Chouhan king of Delhi, and to have ruled 
despotically over the whole of India. The Krror1* Raja too, boasts his descent 
from Bise1 Pau, and if any faith can be placed in a “ Bansaoli”’ or genealogical 
“ tree,”’ he has a fair claim to the benefits, real or imaginary, resulting there- 
from. ABULFAZL has a short and pithy sentence regarding the ‘‘ Bansaolts.”” 
“And all of these tribes now carry in their hands genealogical tables for ages 
back.” — Gladwin’s Ayeen Akberl, vol. ii. p. 399. 
* Heis a Chandravansi Rajput. 
