The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s2.139

v3.c29.s2.139

Tradition records the existence of a dynasty of Gāolī, or cowherd race, of whom nothing certain is known, at Deogarh, the old fortress which stands twenty-four miles south-west of Chhindwāra. This dynasty ended with the twin-brothers Ransūr and Ghansūr, who reigned jointly, and who befriended a Gond named Jātba. Jātba eventually slew his masters and founded the Gond dynasty which reigned at Deogarh. The only indication of a date in the legend is the record of an imaginary visit paid by Akbar to Jātba, and even tradition is silent as to the history of his successors, of whom hardly anything is known until the time of Bakht Buland, who was reigning at Deogarh at the latter end of the seventeenth century.