History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c44.39

v2.c44.39

Though the last Gajapati had submitted to the British and obtained a Qabūlnāmah from Harcourt and Melville and though he was the hereditary Superintendent of the holy temple of Jagannātha, he was kept a prisoner in Barabati fort till 1807 and his ancestral possession confiscated, merely on the suspicion that he might have been in league with the Marathas. He was the first and the foremost chief in Orissa in rank though not in power and therefore the British Officers in Orissa thought the rebellion of his troops to be a sufficient ground for his deposition and the confiscation of the State.