ii, Asia, p. 9:
Oxford, 1914).
8. The land revenue has been largely increased, and the resources and
communications of the country have been greatly developed during the
last half-century. The formation of the Central Provinces as a
separate administration in 1861 secured for the Sagar and Nerbudda
territories the attention which they failed to obtain from the
distant Government of the North-Western Provinces. Sir Richard
Temple, the first Chief Commissioner, administered the Central
Provinces with extraordinary energy and success.
9. Raja Chhatarsal Bundela was Raja of Panna. The history of
Chhatarsal is related in _I.G._ (1908), vol. xix, p. 400, s.v. Panna
State. In 1729 he called in the Marathas to help him against Muhammad
Khan Bangash, and when he died in 1731 rewarded them by bequeathing
one-third of his dominions to the Peshwa. The correct date of his
death is Pus Badi 3, Samvat 1788 (_Hamirpur Settlement Report_
(1880), note at end of chapter 2). The date is often given
inaccurately.
10. Chitrakot, in the Banda district of Bundelkhand, under the
government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, and seventy-one
miles distant from Allahabad, is a famous place of pilgrimage, much
frequented by the votaries of Rama.
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