MAIHAR  , a native

state of Central India, in the Baghelkhand agency . Area, 407 sq. m.; pop . (1901), 63,702; estimated revenue, £4700 . The state, which is watered by the Tons river, consists mainly of alluvial soil covering sandstone, and is fertile except in the hilly district of the south . A large area is under forest, the produce of which provides a small export trade . The chief, whose title is raja, claims descent from the Kachwaha Rajput clan . The state suffered severely from famine in 1896--1897 . The town of Maihar (pop . 6802) is on the East Indian railway, 97 M . N. of Jubbulpore . Extensive ruins of shrines and other buildings in its neighbourhood indicate a former much greater extent of the place .