The Sixteen chief Nobles of Mewar, their Titles, Names, Clans, Tribes, Estates,
number of Villages in each, and their Value.
| Titles. | Names. | Clan. | Tribe. | Estate. | Number of Villages. | Value, A.D. 1760. | Remarks | |
| Raj | Chandan Singh | Jhala | Jhala | Sadri | 127 | 100,000 |  | These estates are all diminished one-half in nominal amount; and their revenues still more. |
| Rao | Partap Singh | Chauhan | Chauhan | Bedia | 80 | 100,000 | ||
| Rao | Mohkam Singh | Chauhan | Chauhan | Kotharia | 65 | 80,000 | ||
| Rawat | Padma Singh | Chondawat | Sesodia | Salumbar | 85 | 84,000 | Would realize this if cultivated. | |
| Thakur | Zorawar Singh | Rathor | Mertia | Ghanerao | 100 | 100,000 | This chief ceases to be one of the 16 since the Rana lost the province of Godwar. | |
| Rao | Keshodas | —— | Pramar | Bijolia | 40 | 45,000 | Would realize this if cultivated. | |
| Rawat | Gokuldas | Sangawat | Sesodia | Deogarh | 125 | 80,000 | Would realize more if cultivated. | |
| Rawat | Maha Singh | Meghawat | Sesodia | Begun | 150 | 200,000 | This includes usurpations—now seized by Sindhia. The estate would realize 70,000 if cultivated. | |
| Raj | Kalyan Singh | Jhala | Jhala | Delwara | 125 | 100,000 | Would realize two-thirds if cultivated. | |
| Rawat | Salim Singh | Jagawat | Jagawat | Amet | 60 | 60,000 | Do., do. | |
| Raj | Chhattar Sal | Jhala | Jhala | Gogunda | 50 | 50,000 | Would realize this if cultivated. | |
| Rawat | Fateh Singh | Sarangdevot | Sesodia | Kanor | 50 | 95,000 | Would realize half if cultivated. | |
| Maharaja | Zorawar Singh | Saktawat | Sesodia | Bhindar | 64 | 64,000 | Would realize this if cultivated. | |
| Thakur | Jeth Singh | Mertia | Rathor | Badnor | 80 | 80,000 | Do., do. | |
| Rawat | Salim Singh | Saktawat | Sesodia | Bansi | 40 | 40,000 | | These chiefs have lost all influence and half their their estates. |
| Rao | Surajmall Singh | Chauhan | Chauhan | Parsoli | 40 | 40,000 | ||
| Rawat | Kesari Singh | Kishanawat | Sesodia | Bhainsror | 60 | 60,000 |  | These chiefs have taken rank on the depression of the above—they never appear at court on the same day. |
| Rawat | Jawan Singh | Kishanawat | Sesodia | Kurabar | 35 | 35,000 | ||
Note.—The inferior grades possessed estates to a still larger amount, conjointly yielding a revenue of thirty lakhs of rupees; and as each thousand rupees of estate furnished on emergency three horses completely equipped, the feudal interest could supply nine thousand horse besides foot, of which they make little account. [Accounts of the present condition of these nobles will be found in Erskine ii. A. under the headings of their estates.]
[1]. See Appendix, No. [VIII]., for treaty with the Rana.
[2]. Commanded by Major-General Sir R. Donkin, K.C.B.
[3]. The author had the honour to be selected by the Marquess of Hastings to represent him at the Rana’s court, with the title of ‘Political Agent to the Western Rajput States.’ During the campaign of 1817-18 he was placed as the point of communication to the various divisions of the northern army; at the same time being intrusted with the negotiations with Holkar (previous to the rupture), and with those of Kotah and Bundi. He concluded the treaty with the latter State en route to Udaipur, where, as at the latter, there were only the benefits of moral and political existence to confer.
[4]. The author had passed through Bhilwara in May 1806, when it was comparatively flourishing. On this occasion (Feb. 1818) it was entirely deserted. It excited a smile, in the midst of regrets, to observe the practical wit of some of the soldiers, who had supplied the naked representative of Adinath with an apron—not of leaves, but scarlet cloth.
[5]. The Agent had seen him when a boy, at a meeting already described; but he could scarcely have hoped to find in one, to the formation of whose character the times had been so unfavourable, such a specimen as this descendant of Partap.