638 History of the Gnrha Mundala Rdjas. [Atre* 



M ah raj Sa, and the accession of Sewraj Sa'. These districts were 

 subsequently formed into the five muhals of Deoree, Tendookera f 

 Chawurpata, Goor Jamur, and Nahir Mow. When Nizam Sa, ascended 

 the throne he was twenty-seven years of age ; and the cruel and un- 

 popular conduet of his nephew, during the short interval of six months 

 that he reigned, added to his own fine person, affable manners, and 

 great capacity for business, soon reconciled all classes of the people 

 to his government. He turned his attention entirely to the im- 

 provement of his country, and the cultivation is said to have extended, 

 and the population a good deal augmented, during his long reign. 



Nizam Sa' died after a reign of twenty- seven years at Gurha in the 

 year Samvat, 1833, A. D. 1776, leaving, as it was pretended, one 

 child, a son, Mihpal Singh, then about one month old, and a recogni- 

 tion of his title to the succession was obtained from the chief of Sau* 

 gor, acting ostensibly under the authority of the Peshwa. 



About the year Samvat, 1790 or A. D. 1733 Muhammudun Khan 

 Bungush was transferred from the government of Allahabad to that 

 of Malwa ; and he attempted the conquest of the districts of Bundel- 

 khund from Chuttersal, an enterprising chief who availed himself of 

 the disorders of the empire, and the absence of the imperial armies in 

 the Dukhun, to put himself at the head of the discontented Hindu 

 chiefs in that quarter, and form for himself a valuable independent 

 principality. Chuttersal finding himself too weak to resist so 

 powerful an enemy, invited the assistance of Bajee Rao the Peshwa, 

 who marched to his support at the head of a large body of cavalry, 

 defeated Bungush, and made him evacuate the whole of the territories 

 he had invaded and seized. Chuttersal was so well pleased with 

 the able support the Peshwa had given him in his utmost need, that 

 he adopted him as a third son, and assigned over to him, as an imme- 

 diate recompence, a garrison and territory in the vicinity of Jhunsee, 

 worth above two hundred and twenty-five thousand rupees a year. 



Chuttersal died in the year A. D. 1735, and the Peshwa sent 

 his confidential agent Gobind Pundit, to demand his share of the 

 chief's dominions as the third son, so styled after the late contest. 

 He met Hirdee Sa' and Jugut Raj, the two sons of the deceased 

 chief, and obtained the cession of the districts of Saugor, Gurpehra, 

 &c. &c. yielding an estimated annual revenue of about thirty-six 

 lakhs of rupees. Gobind Pundit remained in charge of these districts 

 as Mukusdar, and transferred the seat of government from Gurpehra 

 to Saugor, where he built a fortress and town upon the borders of a 

 very handsome lake. He extended his conquests and authority over 



