History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c48.34

v2.c48.34

There is *no mention* of such records in the Gazetteer of the Central Provinces either in the first edition of 1868 or in the second edition of 1870. Mr. Mazumdar henceforth can only be regarded as the historiographer of the chiefs of the Patna-Sambalpur-Sonpur group and not a critical scholar. The next feat attempted by Mr. Mazumdar was in 1925 in his “Orissa in the Making,” published by the University of Calcutta. Here he accepts as correct the statements in the Bengal Gazetteers of 1909 and 1910 that “so early as the 12th or 13th century A. D. one Humeru of the family of the Chohan Rajputs of Mainpuri in the United Provinces came to Patna with his wife” (p. 219). The most important addition in this instalment is that “the son of Humeru born in Patna State became by his mythical powers the chief of the eight Malliks who had the government Patna and Sambalpur in their hands and thus established the Chohan rule in the Kosala country by being installed at Gad-Sambar,” (p. 220). The only proof in support of the statement which Mr. Mazumdar can quote is the acceptance of this tradition by the Maratha Rajas of Nagpur and by Major Impey. As if any of the Bhonslas or their officers were in a position to ascertain the true