The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s2.137

v3.c29.s2.137

Gondwāna, the forest region between Berar on the west and Orissa on the east, was sparsely populated by the Gonds, Dravidians who had probably migrated northwards from the Deccan, but in the eleventh century the northern and eastern tracts of this region, which were known as Chedi, were ruled by two families of Haihaya Bans Rājputs, who were probably, like the Chandels of Jijhoti, Hinduized Gonds. One family, which retained its possessions until it was ousted by the Marāthās, had its capital at Ratanpur¹, in the present Bilāspur District; and the other at Tripuri, or Tewar, about six miles from Jubbulpore. The Haihayas were also known as the Kālachurīs. Those of Tewar disappeared towards the end of the twelfth century, being supplanted, as is commonly believed, by Bāghels of Rewa, but according to Gond tradition by a Gond hero named Jādū Rāī, said to be the ancestor of the Gond dynasty which was certainly reigning in that region, with its capital at Garha, not long after that time.