History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c44.133.4

v2.c44.133.4

On the 15th of the same month Ratnā Nāyak and Nandā Nāyak were captured. After the trials six leaders were sentenced to death and the 100 others to different terms of imprisonment.¹ Two interesting documents have been printed regarding the Keuñjhar rebellion of 1868 in the reprint of Sir Richard Temple's Report on the Administration of the Central Provinces. The first of these is a report from Ravenshaw dated the 24th June 1870. We learn from the second paragraph of this report that on account of the rebellion, the State was taken under Government management and Captain Johnstone posted at Keuñjhar to assist the Rājā in the management of the State. At the end of the disturbances Ravenshaw found that Rs. 1,30,327-3-2½ was due from the Keuñjhar State as the cost of quelling the rebellion and this amount was constantly increasing. As the Rājā of Mayurbhañj was directly implicated in supporting the claims of Brindāban and therefore in the Bhuinyā and Juāng rebellions, Ravenshaw proposed to realise half of this amount, Rs. 65,163-10-0, from him. Mahārāja Jadunāth Bhañja of Mayurbhañj had died in 1863 and had been succeeded by Rājā Śrināth Bhañja. Śrināth died in 1868, during the rebellion, and was succeeded by Kṛṣṇachandra Bhañja and this chief was ruling over Mayurbhañj in 1870 when Ravenshaw’s proposals for inflicting this sum on that State were sent in.