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H. Beveridge —Rajah Kans. 
Kans. Hakim was Goues’ title, and Mr. Westmacott tells ns that it is still 
in use among the ryots of Dinajpur when speaking of their zamindars. 
The Riyaz calls Rajah Kans Zamindar of Bhaturiah. Mr. Bloch¬ 
mann* says that he does not know if this name is an ancient one, and 
that it does not occur in the Ain. But there is good evidence of 
the antiquity of the name. Gladwin, in his Revenue Accounts published 
in 1790, at page 13, mentions Bhaturiah as giving its name to a sir of 
a particular weight, and Grant in the Fifth Report, page 347, tells us 
that Bhaturiah was an ancient division, and was the jaghir of Mir 
Jamla. In Jaffar Khan’s settlement of 1722 or 1135 A. H., Bhaturiah 
was included in Cliakla Ghora Ghat.t I a 11 ! also inclined to think 
that the name does occur in the Ain. Grant tells us, page 338, that 
Bhaturiah belonged to Sarkar Bazuha, and in the Ain, page 404 of 
the Persian text, we find a Bahuriabazu, or Bahsuriabazu, entered as a 
large mahal in that Sarkar. It is very likely that two dots have been 
omitted in copying, and that the name should be Bliaturia. Bazu is 
an affix to all the estates in Sarkar Bazuha, as Mr. Blochmann has 
pointed out.J Mr. Blochmann has also pointed§ out that Bliaturia is 
the name given in Rennel’s Bengal Atlas, Sheet No. 6, to a large tract 
east of Maldali. It included Nattore. In the same map we have the 
town Battorya marked, and this is probably Bhaturia. It lies near 
the Ganges, and about half way between Pabna and Rampur Bauliali. 
Mr. Blochmann has hazarded the conjecture that the name Raj- 
shaye is a reminiscence of Raja Kans. This, however, seems very 
doubtful. Rajsliaye does not seem to be an old name. Apparently it 
does not occur in the Ain, for Graut places Rajsliaye in Sarkar Audam- 
bar, or Tanda, and the name does not occur under that Sarkar in the 
Ain. Moreover Rajshaye proper was on the west of the Ganges, and is 
so marked in Rennel. It therefore was no part of Kans or Ganesh’s 
ancestral property. There is not even a pargana of the name of Raj¬ 
shaye in the modern district of that name. The pargana Rajshaye, 
which probably gave the name to Rani Bliowani’s immense zamindari, is 
far away to the west of the Ganges and lies chiefly, if not entirely, in 
Birbhum. Rajshaye is probably a compound word of the same class 
as Rajmalial. It is possible even that the last syllable may not be con¬ 
nected with Slidli , but may be the Arabic shai , i. e., property. The 
Rajah referred to in it is not improbably Rajah Man Singh. There is 
a large pargana in the same neighbourhood, of which the Rajshaye 
pargana is, I believe, a dependency, which goes by the name of Kumar 
* J. A. S. B. XLII, 263. 
f Vide Fifth Report, pp. 264 and 338. 
t J. A. S. B. XLII, 216. 
§ ib. p. 263. 
