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On the retirement of Raja Ram Pundit in 1200 Amli, hisson Sadasheo 

 Rao was appointed Nazim, and after him Chimna Bala. Affairs however 

 were managed, chiefly by Inkaji S/ukdeo, the Pher Nanis, and Bala Ji Kun- 

 war, the commander of fort Barabatti, and principal military officer. In 

 this state things were found in 1803, when the province was conquered by 

 the English armies. The dominion of the Khurda Rajas was not finally 

 extinguished till 1804, when a most unprovoked rising against the newly 

 established English government, drew down upon Raja Mukund Deo the 

 vengeance of the British power. He was driven from his fort, seized, sent 

 a prisoner to Midnapore, and his remaining territory of Khurda was brought 

 under the management of the British collectors. Since that period the 

 proud but insignificant representatives of the Maharajas of Orissa, have 

 been officially acknowledged only as private landholders ; but the liberal 

 policy of government has conferred on them a sufficient pension, and an 

 office of authority connected with the temple, in the enjoyment of which 

 they pass their days in tranquil and honorable retirement, within the sacred 

 limits of Jagannalh Puri. 



Religion, Antiquities > Temples, and Civil Architecture. 



UTC ALA DESA which is believed or fabled to be itself so holy a region 

 throughout its entire extent, contains four places of pilgrimage of peculiar 

 sanctity called the Hara Khetr, the Vishnu or Pursottem Khetr, the Ar- 

 ka or Padma Khetr, and the Vijayi or Parvati Khetr, within the limits of 

 which will be found nearly all that is curious and interesting in the Religi- 

 ous Antiquities of the province. 



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