History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c43.13

v2.c43.13

The next falsehood in Mr. B. C. Mazumdar's book is the following sentence: "Mr. Wills has proved that far from holding the Rulers of the Sambalpur Tract under subjection, the Rulers of Raipur and Bilaspur did never even realise or demand any revenue from the chiefs of the Chhattisgarh area who were counted as subordinate chiefs of the Haihayas."¹ I shall quote Major Agnew once more to prove that, though Mr. Wills is perfectly right, Mr. B. C. Mazumdar, with his usual legal acumen, has misstated the facts of the Haihaya-vamśī land-tenure in his attempts to prove that his client and his ancestors were independent chiefs under the Haihayas and the Marathas: