698 The Hodesum (improperly called Kolehan). [No. 103. 



after which a general, division was made of the rest of the country the 

 Bhooians had retired to, among the Hissadars or brethren of the Raja; 

 the eldest brother took Anundpoor (or Sumijgurh) ; the second, 

 Seryekela ; and the youngest, Kera. The Raja also gave as pykallee, or 

 service tenures to some of his subordinates, the Talooks of Bundgaon, 

 Khursawa, Koryekela, and Chynpoor j of these Khursawa has become 

 in a manner hereditary and independent. 



In process of time the brothers managed to get into quarrels 

 with neighbouring Zemindars ; the Gangpoor walla (of Keonjur) and 

 the Baboo of Anundpoor recriminated each other, about mutual 

 depredations committed (by their orders) in their dominions, by the 

 Koles; the Porahaut Raja's pykes harried Sonepoor; the Kera Baboo 

 plundered Tamar and Chota Nagpoor ; and the Koonwr of Seryekela 

 and Raja of Mohurbunj found a bone of contention in the little but 

 fertile tuppah of Koochoong, before alluded to. 



In these contentions the services of the Hos were brought into 

 requisition; promises of booty lured them into becoming stedfast allies 

 of those chiefs who had won them over, and thus incited, they com- 

 menced a series of depredations on the surrounding country, which 

 soon brought them into note. In return for the plunder which they 

 acquired, they were induced to pay rent in the shape of occasional 

 salamees, in different taxes, or " Russoomat," at periods of Hindoo 

 festivals, &c. and the Kolehan was divided into Peers or Pergunnahs, 

 twenty-four in number; of these the Moherbunj Raja through his 

 Dewan at Baumenghattee secured four, viz. Aulapeer, Burburriapeer, 

 Toepeer, and Lalgurh, placing a Zemindar or Mahapattor in the latter. 

 The Singbhoom Raja, together with the younger branches of his house, 

 allied themselves with the remainder, and this order of things con- 

 tinued until 1831-32, when the Mahapattor of Lalgurh, disgusted with 

 the exactions of the Moherbunj Raja, broke out into open rebellion, 

 which led to a series of such contentions and outrages (especially 

 as the Raja's emissaries artfully induced the ignorant Koles of the 

 Mahapattor to plunder our territories of the Jungle Mehals, and 

 incommode our communications to the westward, by cutting of 

 the daks) that Government was at length obliged to interfere, and 

 in 1836-37 effectual measures were taken to prevent disturbances 

 of the kind, by taking the Hos under our immediate control, and 



