1859.] Account of Pergunnah Malioha, Zlllali Rumeerpore. 369 



Account of Pergunnah Mahoba, Zillah Humeerpore, Bundelcund. — • 

 By G. H. Freeling, .%., B. 0. S. 



The re-settlement of Mahoba having become necessary by the 

 expiration of the old leases, it was accomplished daring the cold 

 weather of 1855-56, and a report submitted for the sanction of 

 Government, of which the annexed paper is an extract, comprising 

 all those portions relative to the former history, topography, and 

 products of the pergunnah, but omitting all the Fiscal review, bases 

 of assessment and classification of soils, which naturally formed the 

 most important part of the report itself, but which seem rather to 

 belong to the revenue record of the province than to be suited to 

 the pages of this journal. Want of leisure has prevented the mat- 

 ter being put in a more popular shape, and must excuse the some- 

 what formal paragraphs into which its official character necessarily 

 compressed each head. 



Introduction. 



Mahoba Proper is situated to the South of the Humeerpore dis- 

 trict, distant from the Sudder Station 55 miles, and from the Can- 

 tonments of Banda and Nowgong, 36 and 34 miles respectively. 

 The Pergunnah is bounded on the North by Jelalpore of Humeer- 

 pore ahd Kundeh of Bauda ; on the East by Banda, and the Native 

 States of Gouriar and Ohirkharee ; to the South by the Chutturpore 

 territory and the Oormel Nuddee ; and to the West by another 

 portion of Chirkharee and the Pergunnahs of Jeitpore and Pun- 

 waree. 



In former days, Mahoba played a very important part in the 

 history of India, and its princes held sway over a large portion of 

 the Peninsula. The works of old poets abound with legends of the 

 heroes to whom it gave birth, and for many generations before the 

 Muhammadan conquest, the different races of Thakoors, who held 

 their court there, were among the most celebrated of that warlike 

 period. To trace them through all their changes would, in such a 

 report, be out of place ; but it may be interesting to notice briefly, 

 from a comparison of the different papers which have been pub- 

 lished on the subject, the principal mutations which have at length 

 reduced the capital of the Chaudels to a British Pergunnah. 



