298 ON ORISSA PROPER 



or both causes of hostility, we may trace abundant proofs, in the dismem- 

 berment of many of the old Khandaitis recorded in the accounts of Raja 

 Man Sinh'a settlement, which became afterwards annexed to Khurda. 



The state of the country is represented in no favorable light during the 

 administration of the famous Jaffer Khan Nasiri, whose arrangements more- 

 over could not have tended much to improve it. In Gladwin's history of 

 Bengal it is mentioned that Jaffer Khan whilst Dewan, represented to the 

 Court of Delhi, "the advantages that would accrue to the crown by trans- 

 ferring the Jagirs of the Mansabdars of Bengal to Orissa, where the lands 

 are of less value, and the collections made with greater expense and difiicul- 

 ly." It is added that, the Emperor approving the scheme, assignments were 

 granted upon Orissa, the cultivation of which province had of late been vern 

 much neglected, in lieu of the Bengal Jagirs* 



The administration of Mohammed Taki Khan, the Naib, (172-5 to 17,35, 

 A. D.) on the part of Shujaa ad Din Mohammed, Nazim of the three 

 provinces, is marked by a great reduction of the limits of the province of 

 Orissa. In his time the remainder of the old Jelasore Sircar* lyin°- be- 

 tween Tumlook, Midnapore, and the Subanreka, with the exception of a 

 few small pergunnahs near the latter river, was annexed to Bengal, and the 

 Nizam's government obtained possession either by force or intii«ue of the 

 entire country included between the estates called Tikallyf Ra°-hunath- 

 pur, and the Chilka lake, thus greatly reducing the revenues and authority 

 of the Rajas of Khurda, whose controul had before extended on the hill 

 side, from Gumser to within forty miles of Cicacole. A war occurred 

 between this governor, and the Raja Ramchander Deo of Khurda, which 

 was terminated after a long struggle by the capture of the latter and his 

 imprisonment in Cuttack. Temporary possession was taken of Khurda 



* This sircar had been divided in Shah Jehan's reign into the four following subdivisions as alrea- 

 dy noticed, viz. Goalpareh, Maljhettia, Mazkuii, and Jelasir. 



f Forty-three miles N. E. of Cicacole, 



