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PLACES
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MAHAGAON ZAMINDARI
Mahagaon Zamindari, " This estate is situated in the south of the Sakoli tahsil bordering the Chanda district. Its area is 31 square miles. The founder of the family was a Ponwar Rajput who came from Malva and rose to the post of 2,000 horse in the service of the Gond' Raja Bakht Buland (1700 A.D.). He was given a grant of land for suppressing a recalcitrant zamindar in Tirora, and the family is said subsequently to have held Lanji, which was surrendered to the Bhonsla Government in exchange for Mahagaon. The zamindars held sanads from the Nagpur Government and some takids or injunctions formerly existed which were given by Captain Wilkinson in 1822 and 1826 and conferred on the zamindar the privilege of imposing fines up to Rs. 5 and of levying a tax up to Rs. 15 on the remarriage of widows. In 1840 a deed was granted by the Nagpur Raja, conferring the estate on Kewal Ram, the then holder on the rule of primogeniture [ Reproduced from Bhandara District Gazetteer, 1908 ed.
p 212.]." Mahagaon has an institute imparting training in leather working.
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