Ajanbahu Jatbasha (also known as Jatba or King Jatav) is considered by historians to be founder of the Gond dynasty of Chhindwara and Nagpur, which ruled the present days territories of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and part of Maharashtra in the 16th-18th centuries.
[6][7][8] In 1600, during the reign of Krishna Shah[5] (1597-1647), the Gond king of Chanda, the independence of the Deogarh kingdom was recognized by a treaty.
[6] In 1564, Akbar's general Khwaja Abdul Majid Asaf Khan had attacked Panna and made it a feudatory state.
The Mughal governors of the province allowed the Deogarh rulers to rule of their territory on payment of yearly tribute.
[6] The Ain-i-Akbari by Abul Fazl records that Jatba, the Gond king of Deogarh, was an ennobled vassal of Akbar and was paying annual tribute to him.