History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c42.7

v2.c42.7

Hitherto this transposition in the name was regarded as being due to the very careless and ignorant compilers of the Calendar, as even letters from accredited agents of the Maratha Government of Nagpur, like Udepuri Gosain, use the form Sambhaji Ganeś.³ Mr. Khandekar's claim now lays stress on the form of the name Ganeś Sambhājī. Moreover, this letter, received by the Governor of Bengal on the 2nd July, 1768, was written by Mahārājā Jānojī and not by any agent or intermediary of the Government of Nagpur. Only one fact still stands in the way; that the names Ganeś and Sambhājī were transposed so many times in the Persian Correspondence of the Government of India. Mr. Ganpatrao Gopal Khandekar informs me in the same letter that in an old memorandum preserved in his family records Ganeś Sambhājī is said to have enjoyed the patronage of the Bhonsles. Such memoranda, Qursinamahs and Roznamchas very rarely commit such mistakes in the case of proper names. The full name of Sambhājī Ganeś is really Ganeś Sambhājī Khandekar and his family came to Orissa from Upper India. The subsequent migrations of his descendants to Ujain in the dominions of the Mahārāja Sinde of Gwalior do not concern the History of Orissa.