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1871.] Notes on Chutid Nagpur , Packet , and Palamau. 
is still the name of one of its Parganahs. The Parganah is 
much broken up, and the parts are in different places far apart. 
It is spelt Khukra on the topographical Survey maps. The Pajah, 
Col. Dalton informs me, used to live at a place in Lat. 23° 20', 
Long. 88° 87, nearly, where there is still an old fort. Grant also 
uses the name Kolcera as an equivalent for Chutia Nagpur. 
Kokrah was known at the Mughul Court for its diamonds, and 
it is evidently this circumstance which led the generals of Akbar 
and Jahangir to invade the district. I have found two notices of 
Kokrah in the Akbarnamali, and one in the Tuzuk i Jahdngtn , from 
which it appears that Chutia Nagpur was ruled over in A. D. 1585 
by Madhu Singh, who in that year became tributary to Akbar. 
He was still alive in A. D. 1591, when he served under Man 
Singh in the imperial army which invaded Orisa. The third notice 
refers to the year A. D. 1616, the 10th year of Jahangir’s reign, 
when Pajah Durjan Sal was rather roughly handled by Ibrahim 
Khan Fath-jang, the then governor of Bihar. 
The extracts are— 
From the Akbarnamali (Lucknow Edition, III., p. 491). “About 
the same time (end of 993, A. H., or A. D. 1585, 30th year of 
Akbar’s reign), Shahbaz Khan Kambu sent a detachment to Ko¬ 
krah. Kokrah is a well cultivated district between Orisa and the 
Dak’hin. It is ruled over Madhu Singh. As the country is inacces¬ 
sible, he thought that he was safe, and assumed an independent atti¬ 
tude. Our men, however, entered the district, and carried off much 
plunder. The Pajah became tributary ( malguzdr ), and was thus 
fortunate to get under the shadow of the imperial government.” 
From the same work, p. 641, 37th year, or A. D., 1591 (end). 
“ Madhu and Lak’hmi Pai of Kokrah also served in the detach¬ 
ment commanded by Yusuf Chak Kashmiri.” 
This detachment consisted of the contingents of South Bihar 
and Western Bengal Pajahs, and marched, in the 37th year of 
Akbar’s reign, over Jharkhand to Mednipur (Midnapore), where 
they joined the imperial army under Man Singh for the conquest 
of Orisa. 
Tuzuk i Jahdngiri (p. 155). “ On the 3rd Isfandiarmuz of the 10th 
year of my reign (A. D., 1616 ; fafar, 1025) it was reported to me 
