1859.] Account of Pergunnah MaJwba, Zillali Humeerpore. 371 



was destined again, in some degree, to revive, in the persons of the 

 Boondelas, a Kajpoot tribe of spurious descent, a branch of the 

 royal race of Guhurwars of Casee. 



The accounts of their rise are various ; Franklin assigning it 

 to the time of Timour, when the tribe under Pewada Bir are 

 said to have established themselves in Mhow ; while Elliot refers 

 them to a somewhat earlier period, the beginning of the 13th cen- 

 tury, when, " after the Chandels had been humiliated by the Chou- 

 hans, and they, in their turn, had been compelled to yield to the 

 supremacy of the Musulmans, the country round Mahoba, must have 

 been in so distracted a state, as to have invited the attack of the 

 first Chieftain who could muster a band of followers sufficiently 

 strong to maintain their occupation. 



For the first two or three centuries of their rule, they were 

 at times independent, at times nominally acknowledging the Mu- 

 hammadan authority, until, in A. D. 1640, Pahar Sing was installed 

 and confirmed by the Emperor Shah Jehan in all the possessions of 

 his ancestors. 



About this time, Champat Rao, a Chief of some note, settled 

 at Mhow, and made himself notorious by his predatory exploits, 

 His son, Chuttur Sal, who had been absent in the wars of the 

 Deccan, and also in the Mahratta service, returning, settled at 

 Punna, overthrew the neighbouring chieftains, seized their territo- 

 ries, and rendered himself so powerful, that Ahmed Khan Bungesh, 

 of Furruckabad, was sent with a large force to reduce him to obedi- 

 ence. In the face of this overwhelming army, he applied for aid to 

 the Peishwa, Sivajee Bajee Rao, and with his aid defeated the impe- 

 rial troops, and made himself supreme in Bundelcund. Fearing, 

 however, the increasing power of the Mahrattas, he, at his death in 

 1731 A. D., bequeathed one-third of his possessions to his powerful 

 ally in hopes that, by that means, he might secure the rest to his 

 children : in this share Mahoba was included. 

 Mahratta Government. 



Mahoba having passed as an integral part of Saugor, and Jalown, 

 to the Mahrattas, notwithstanding the attempted resistance of Bri- 

 daya Sab, and Jugat Raj, the sons of Chuttur Sal, which was re- 

 pressed by Holkar, an officer of his army, by name Casi Pundit, was 



