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same direction: or it would be more accurate to say that a record 
of Grants suggests that there was no Chief, since it is scarcely 
conceivable that Grants would have been made in a Chief's 
territory. 
id) Other indications may occasionally be found in the com- 
position of the local forces; while a note of the existence of a fort 
may be significant, because one can scarcely think of a Chief 
without a fort. 
As an example of the way in which such indications may serve, 
we may take the subdivision of Ajaigarh in the district of 
Kalinjar (Ain, i. 430). It is the only subdivision of the district 
for which area-figures are missing; the Valuation is a round 
figure (two lakhs of dams), the only one in the district; there are 
no Grants; and there is ‘‘a stone fort on a hill.” These facts 
make it permissible to conjecture that at this period a Chief was 
left in possession of this wild bit of country, either paying a 
small sum as tribute, or merely recorded as “worth” that sum; 
the student of local history may find here something to explain 
or corroborate local records or traditions, in themselves of 
uncertain validity.