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are held to be derived from the Gaharwār, or Gherwal, Rājpūts, who were probably an aristocratic section of the aboriginal Bhar tribe with some infusion of Rājpūt blood. The Bundēlas became prominent in the thirteenth or fourteenth century, after the fall of the Chandēl Rājpūts, their most successful chief being Rājā Chhatarsāl of Panna, in the eighteenth century, who was virtually ruler of all Bundēlkhand. The country known as Bundēlkhand is partly in the United Provinces, partly in the Central Provinces, and partly in Native States. It is bounded on the north by the Jumna; on the north and west by the Chambal river; on the south by the Central Provinces, and on the south and east by Rīwā and the Kaimūr hills. (Russell, T. and C.C.P, iv. 438–40; Sleeman's *Rambles*, ed. Smith (1915), p. 144 n.)]