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CHHATARPUR , a native See also:state in the See also:Bundelkhand agency of Central See also:India . See also:Area, II18 sq. m.; pop . (1901) 156,139; estimated See also:revenue, £16,000 . The See also:chief, whose hereditary See also:title is See also:raja, is a See also:Rajput of the Ponwar See also:clan, whose ancestor dispossessed the descendant of Chhatar Sal, the founder of Bundelkhand See also:independence, towards the end of the 18th See also:century . The state was guaranteed to Kunwar Suni Singh Ponwar in 18o6 . In 1854 it would have lapsed to the See also:British See also:government for want of See also:direct heirs, but was conferred on Jagat Raj as a See also:special See also:act of See also:grace . The See also:town of CHHATARPUR, which is named after Chhatar Sal, and contains his See also:cenotaph, is 70 M. by road S.W. of See also:Banda . Pop . (1901) 10,029 . There are manufactures of See also:paper and coarse See also:cutlery, and a high school . The state also contains the British See also:cantonment of See also:Nowgong . |
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