30 Notes of a tour in the Tributary Mehals. [No. 1, 
the Rajwars and Kisans I have not yet had an opportunity of study- 
ing, and shall conclude with a few words about the Khairwars. They 
are found in many parts of this province but are most numerous and 
have been longest resident in Palamow. They are said to have 
migrated from the hills west of Rhotas ; there is a place there, called 
Kyra, supposed to be named after them, and they are found about the 
Kymoor hills. The Rajah of Turki in that vicinity is a Khairwar. 
In this division several of our great men are said to be of Khairwar 
extraction, but they are all now undergoing that process of being 
refined into Rajpoots which I have described as likely to have occurred 
in other families, by intermarriage with Rajpoot maidens. They have 
to pay very high for the honour, but by giving large dowries with their 
daughters, they sometimes obtain for them also the distinction of 
Rajpoot alliances. 
The two races appear to blend well; a handsomer and more ener- 
getic stock is the result; so the aspiring families I allude to, have 
gained something by their outlay in marriages, as the ordinary or pure 
Khairwars are generally a dark, ill-favoured race, with coarse features 
and of lazy unimprovable habits. 
The people called Bhogtahs are a Khairwar tribe. There was a 
small clan of them in Palamow, who long defied the power of the 
British Government. They lived on a narrow plateau, with the Sir- 
goojah mountains behind them, and a range of hills with difficult 
passes in front of them; and with the cattle and property of their 
neighbours, they did very much as they pleased; and as they had 
wonderfully contrived retreats amongst the hills and rocks for them- 
selves and their plunder, they defied all efforts to capture them. At 
last the wild country they occupied was given to them at a nominal 
rent, on condition of their living honest and peaceful lives. This kept 
them quiet for many years, but when the mutinies broke out in 1857, 
the two chiefs, Lilumber and Pitumber, headed an insurrection in Pala- 
mow and came to unmitigated grief.. One was hanged and the other 
was transported for life and died in the Andamans. 
The actual income of the Rajah of Sirgoojah from all sources is not 
more than Rs. 30,000 a year: the estates held by members of his 
family are worth in addition about Rs. 23,000, and other vassals hold 
estates worth annually about Rs. 20,000. A fixity of tenure is the 

