BAGELKHAND, or BAGHELKEAND  , a tract of country in central India, occupied by a collection of native states . The Bagelkhand agency is under the political superintendence of the governor-general's agent for central India, and under the direct jurisdiction of a political agent who is also superintendent of the Rewa state, residing ordinarily at Sutna or Rewa . The agency consists of Rewa state and eleven minor states and estates, of which the more important are Maihar, Nagode and Sohawal . The total area is 14,323 sq . M., and the population in root was 1,555,024, showing a decrease of ix % in the decade, due to the results of famine . The rainfall was very deficient in 1895–1897, causing famine in 1897; and in 1899–1900 there was drought in some sections . The agency was established in March 1871 . Until that date Bagelkhand was under .the Bundelkhand agency, with which it is geographically and historically connected; a general description of the country will be found under that heading . According to Wilson, in his Glossary of Indian Terms, the Baghelas, who give their name to this tract of country, are a branch of the Sisodhyia Rajputs who migrated eastward and once ruled in Gujarat .