[1] It encompassed all the 1,365 villages of Chhapra, Siwan and Gopalganj district of Bihar, was inhabited by more than 391,000 people, and produced an annual rental of almost a million rupees.
Once Sher Shah Suri fully established his control over North India, he took stern action against Jay Mal who fled into the forest and engaged in rebellion.
[4] Due to its central location, Hathwa was the seat of the raja's residential palace and its nearby villages housed most of the key retainers of the estate.
An early twentieth-century account describes Hathwa as an impressive standard market, its shops offering a range of agricultural and consumer goods and its specialists providing a variety of services.
[3] However, the full genealogy of the Hathwa family has been lost as the farmans, nishads and parwanas were destroyed when Fateh Bahadur Sahi rebelled.
[7] Rituals consisted of the Maharaja traveling in a buggy to the Gopal Mandir, and then to the Sheesh Mahal for the annual durbar and onwards on an elephant for darshan of the Maiyya on Vijayadashmi.