202 G. N. Dutt —History of the Hutwa Raj. [No. 2 r 
lakhs of rupees given away on tlie birth of his first son, and a lakh 
spent in the marriage of the present Maharaj Kumar of Benares at 
Salemgarh, district Gorakhpur, in which the bridegroom’s party compos¬ 
ing of several Rajas were his guests, would equal as much as the 
hoard left. The Maharaja died in his forty-first year on the 20th Octo¬ 
ber, 1896, leaving a son of 4 years, the present minor Maharaj Kumar, 
and a daughter of nearly a year; and the Court of Wards again for the 
third time took up the administration of the Raj, appointing the Dowa¬ 
ger Maharani his guardian. The years of the demise of the two suc¬ 
cessive Maharajas, Rajendra Pratap Shahi and Krishna Pratap Shahi, 
are marked by the advent of the famines in Behar in which the Raj had 
to spend, on these two disastrous occasions, more than ten lakhs to 
relieve the distress of its tenants. 
The charity and magnanimity of the present Maharani of Hutwa is 
proverbial. She had contributed a lakh of Rupees to the Famine Fund 
raised by His Excellency the Viceroy, Lord Curzon, for the relief of 
the distressed people in Central Provinces and Rajputana, another lakh 
to the Victoria Memorial Fund, Rs. 50,000 to the Lady Dufferin Zenana 
Hospital, Rs. 30,000 to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families’ Association 
Fund, presided over by Her Gracious Majesty the Qneen Empress 
Alexandra, Rs. 25,000 for the Cliupra Charitable Hospital besides nu¬ 
merous minor contributions. In recognition of her catholic charity and 
kindly feelings towards the tenants of her Raj, Her Majesty the late 
Queen Empress conferred on her the -Kaisar-i-hind gold medal, with 
which she was invested at a grand Durbar at Hutwa, in January 1902, 
by His Honour the late Sir John Woodburn. 
The Maharajas of Hutwa are entitled to take with them within the 
limits of Saran district 100 armed retainers, without license aud to re¬ 
given to Samhowti Tewary of Husainpur. This proves the correctness of my date- 
Again I have assigned the date of the 98th Raja, Maharaja Sirdar Shahi, to he 
1747. In the Lakhraj Register there is one Sanad by him of Asadh 1151 F.S. = 1744 
A.D., granted to Balkissen Ojha of Karthowli, and another of Aghan Sudi 5th, 1165 
F.S. = 1758, granted to Raghunath Soohool of Pankhapali. This also proves the cor¬ 
rectness of my date. 
The following are the date of grants gathered from the Lakhraj Register which 
could be relied on to some extent and with certain allowances : — 
93rd Maharaja Huldnl Shahi Bahadur—1644—78 A.D. 
94th Maharaja Hargovind Shahi Bahadur—1695—1714 A.D. 
95th Maharaja Jubraj Shahi Bahadur—170 (IP) 5—38 A.D. 
96th Maharaja Chet Shahi Bahadur—1737—58 (?) A. D. 
97th Maharaja Kurtal Shahi Bahadur—(no mention) 
9Sth Maharaja Sirdar Shahi—1744—1758 (Cf. above). 
