May 1861.] 



Report on Bustar. 



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they wrote to the Rajah of Bustar recommending him to appoint 

 Dulgunjun Sing to the management of the dependency with the 

 title of Diwan. Bhopal Deo was much pleased with the result of 

 this visit to Nagpore and employed his brother as had been direct- 

 ed by the Rajah and Major Wilkinson. In 1255 Fusly an agree- 

 ment was entered into between the two brothers, by which Dul- 

 gunjun Sing was vested with the management of the dependency, 

 and empowered to dismiss and entertain the servants that might 

 be employed or required therein, the Rajah reserving to himself 

 the right of granting lands, villages or talooks or any mark of re- 

 spect, and of directing the course of procedure in all criminal mat- 

 ters, which were to be reported for his orders. With this Dulgun- 

 jun Sing received 18 Gurhs as an appanage for his livelihood. 

 It appears however, that he managed to make himself so powerful 

 as seriously to inconvenience and alarm the Rajah who in 1257 

 Fusly, about one year subsequent to the arrangement, wrote an 

 urzee to the Soobah at Raipore representing the overbearing con- 

 duct of his brother, &c. on which the Soobah. knowing the brothers 

 to be on unfriendly terms, sent for Dulgunjun Sing and detained 

 him about 6 months in Raipore, after which the case not having 

 been proved against him, he paid a visit to the Rajah at Nagpore 

 and returned to Bustar with an escort of Sowars and an order 

 granted him by the Rajah directing Bhopal Deo to reinstate him and 

 not to injure him in any way. This result is said to have been 

 produced by Dulgunjun Sing having explained the cause of the 

 discussion between himself and his brother to have arisen, through 

 family quarrels fomented by designing servants as well as to the 

 failure at Raipore of the charges brought against him by the 

 Rajah his brother. It does not appear however, that even yet an 

 amicable understanding had arisen between the brothers as about 

 three years afterwards Dulgunjun Sing separated himself from the 

 Rajah with the intention of taking refuge in Jeypore, and pro- 

 ceeded as far as Tarapore the first stage from Jugdulpore. Hear- 

 ing the intelligence the Rajah despatched his two principal and 

 trustworthy public servants, named Juggernath Bheidar and Jugh- 

 bund to detain his brother, but Dulgunjun Sing having in the 

 meantime gained over the people, these two persons were appre- 

 hended by them and brought into Tarapore where they are said to 



