History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c37.95
History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c37.95
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V. The chief of Mayurbhañja with 12 zamindaries and 42 qila's. His own State contains 18 qila's. Among the 11 subordinate zamindars are mentioned a number of chiefs who had long ceased to have any connection with Mayurbhañj. Singhbhum was an independent State in 1825. Nilgiri is now a separate Feudatory State of Orissa. Talmunda and Jamirapal are now in the southen Balasore and Midnapur Districts respectively. It appears, therefore, that though the income of the Mayurbhañj Chief was less than that of the Rājā of Khurda as mentioned in the Fifth Report subsequently mentioned, his status in 1592 was certainly the same as that of the Gajapati and he ruled over a much wider area beginning with Singhbhum and ending with Talmunda, Jamirapal and Jamkunda at the mouth of Subarnarekha river.