History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c43.11

v2.c43.11

The appointment of Mohan Singh is also mentioned later on.² The learned Vakil of the Calcutta High Court, now Professor of the Calcutta University, never thought that Maratha records and even early nineteenth century printed books in English would be brought forward to refute his inexactitudes, because such statements have been accepted by careless compilers of Gazetteers and ignorant district officers in Orissa and the Central Provinces, as historical facts. Agnew's statement proves that Sambalpur as well as all of its pseudo-Chauhāns subordinates were subjugated by the Marathas. We have seen in Chapter XXVII that there were Maratha Agents posted at Sambalpur for a long time, such as, Rāgmānji or Ragunāthji Jāchak, Lakshmanji Jāchak, etc. We know from the original Bākhar of the Nagpurkar Bhonsles that Jāchak was a family name of a host of officers of Raghuji I and his successors.