Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.53

v3.c43.53

The Chief of Hinta.—I was not deceived; it is now midnight, but, late as it is, I will introduce to the readers a few of my visitors. The chief of Hinta, who was absent at his patrimonial estate of Kun, on the hills of Chappan,¹ sent his brother and his *homme d'affaires* to make his compliments to me, and express his regret that he could not offer them personally at Hinta, which he said was " my own township." This was not mere customary civility. Hinta had been taken by the Saktawats soon after the commencement of the civil wars of S. 1824, which was within the period (A.D. 1766) fixed by the general arrangements of the 4th of May 1818, for restitution; and it was impossible, without departing from the principle on which they were based, that the chief should retain it, though he could plead the prescriptive right of half-a-century.