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SONS OF NADOWN RAJAH.

had another son, Rajah Jodbeer Chund, whose mother was a gudun, or native of the highest range of hills, and famous for her beauty, but not entitled by her position or birth to be recognized as the wedded wife of the Rajah of Kangra, the members of whose family prided themselves specially upon the purity of their descent. Maharajah Runjeet Sing, however, looked with favour upon Jodbeer Chund, created him Rajah of Nadown, and conferred upon him his present Jagheer, yielding an income of between three and four thousand pounds sterling per annum. Two of Rajah Jodbeer Chund's sisters, who had been given in marriage to Maharajah Runjeet Sing, immolated themselves on the occasion of that monarch's decease - being burnt alive as Suttees, on the funeral pyre, with the dead body of their husband. 

The Kangra district was ceded by the Sikhs to the British, under the treaty concluded at Lahore on the 9th of March, 1846; and since that time, Rajah Jodbeer Chund has displayed unshaken loyalty towards the British Government. In 1848-49, there was an insurrection in the Kangra hills, in which several of the Rajpoot chiefs took part. On this occasion Rajah Jodbeer Chund sided with the British; and, more recently, during the Sepoy war if 1857, Rajah Jodbeer Chund volunteered to send his second son to Hindoostan, where he served in command of a native troop of horse, and for the gallantry displayed by him in the field, he obtained the "Order of Merit." His father has been recently appointed a Knight Companion of the Star of India. The Photographs are likenesses of two of his younger sons. 

In connection with the Rajahs of Kangra it should be stated that the Rajpoots who claim descent from these same ancestral stock are very numerous in the Kangra district. Among these, female infanticide was largely practised previous to British rule, partly owing to the extravagant manner in which Rajpoot marriages were celebrated, and partly owing to the rule that a Rajpoot must never join his daughter in marriage to an inferior. By another rule a Rajpoot must never drive the plough, as doing so involves the offender on the loss of caste. Accordingly, the Katoches and other descendants of the royal families of the hills, who have not ancestral estates for their support, are often reduced to great straits for livelihood under our more peaceful rule. Many have enlisted in our native army, others have taken service as messengers in our public offices, and some again are engaged in menial work in the tea plantations which have been formed in the Kangra district.