CHHATARPUR  , a native

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