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Dungarpur State in Bajputana. 
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of Sital upon the newly converted Musalman, the son of Prithiraj, 
and gave the one half of Bagar to Prithiraj and the other half to 
Jagmal.” 
Now we can fairly conclude that the account of the separation of 
Banswara from Dungarpur given in the “Rajputana Gazetteer ” and 
the “ Chiefs and Leading Families in Rajputana,” cannot be regarded 
as strictly accurate in all its details. 
The Persian Historians show that the division in two equal parts 
was made by Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat in A.H. 937 (Yikrama 
Sam vat 1587 and A.D. 1531) between the two sons of Maharawal 
Udaisingh of Dungarpur, namely, Prithviraj, and Jagmal. The Rana 
Ratan Si son of Rana Sanga of Citor had sent his two Wakils, Dungar Si 
and Jajar Si, with presents to apologise for Jagmal’s faults. A son of 
Prithviraj had embraced Muhammedanism before the Sultan, and the 
village Sital was consequently conferred upon him. A magnificent 
mosque at Ghat Karci was built by the Sultan. The country was at 
that time known as Bagar and Banswara as Bansla. 
I believe there are some errors in Farishta’s account, as it contains 
in two places the wrong names of the Raja of Bagar as Parsuram. 
There is one error more. Farishta has the reading ‘ Ghat Karci,’ 
which is at present the name of a town in the possession of the 
Banswara Chief, and is close to the town of Banswara, but another copy 
reads ‘ Khat Kara’which is said to be in the Dungarpur territory. 
I think the latter to be the most probable reading. 
The village Sital, which was bestowed by the Sultan on the newly 
converted Muslim son of Prithviraj, is at present in the possession of 
the Dungarpur State. It must be left for further investigation, how 
this village passed into the possession of Dungarpur Chief. 
There is another point, the truth of which is also doubted by the 
author of the Gazetteer. He says :—“ There is little of note to be 
found in the history of Banswara till 1812, nearly three centuries after 
its foundation.” But if we look at the Akbarnama and other Persian 
histories, there are some facts worthy of note in connection with the 
Muhammedan period in the history of Banswara :— 
Firstly, that when Akbar leaving Ajm'ir in A.D. 1577 passed 
through the Me war territory on his way to Malwa, Partap Singh, son 
of Jagmal, showed submission to the Emperor, and he was awarded 
the Mansab and other imperial favors in recognition of his due sub¬ 
mission and military services. 
In 1591 A.D. Rawal Partab Singh’s grandson, XJgrasain, began to 
plunder the imperial villages on the border. Thereupon the Malwa 
Subadar, Mirza Shahrukh, attacked Bansvvara. The Rawal fled to the 
