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Report on Bustar. [No. 11, new series. 



11.— Report on the Bustar Zemindary : by Capt. Charles Elliot, 

 c. b., Madras Artillery, Deputy Commissioner of the Chuttees- 

 gurh or Raipore District, in the Province of Nagpore. 

 No. 51. 



From 



Charles Elliot, Esq. 



Deputy Commissioner, Raipore. 



To 



G. A. C. Plowden, Esq. 



Commissioner of Nagpore. 



Dated Camp Joonagurh, 27th May 1856. 



Sir, 



I have the honor to forward my Proceedings in the affairs of 

 the Kajah of Bustar together with such authentic and well esta- 

 blished information regarding the dependency as I have been ena- 

 bled to gather during my recent tour. 



Boundaries. 2. The large dependency of Bustar situated 



to the south east of the Chutteesgurh District may be said to be 

 comprised between 17° 40 and 20° 20" parallels of north latitude 

 and 80 0 and 82 ° 40" degrees of east longitude, and is bounded 

 on the north, by Kakeir, the D hum terry Tahsildary of Chuttes- 

 gurh and the Bendry Nowagurgh Zemindary attached to Sumbul- 

 pore ; on the east by the Jeypore dependency attached to the 

 Northern Circars ; on the south by the Godavery river ; and on the 

 west by Wyragurh in the Chandah district. Its extreme length 

 from north to south may be stated at about sixty-seven (67) Coss 

 (gondee) or 235 miles, and its breadth from east to west at about 

 fifty-two (52) Coss or 182 miles. 



Divisions. 3. Some discrepancies exist in the papers 



produced by the Rajah, which renders it difficult to arrive at a sa- 

 tisfactory conclusion regarding the original and present divisions 

 of the country, so as to reconcile the one with the other ; the fol- 

 lowing however may be relied on as an approach to accuracy. 

 The dependency formerly consisted of 57 Khalsa sub-divisions (48 



