BAGHELKHAND, a tract of country in central India, occu pied by a collection of Indian States. The Baghelkhand agency is under the political superintendence of the governor-general's agent for Central India, and under the direct jurisdiction of a political agent who is also superintendent of the Rewa State, residing ordi narily at Sutna or Rewa. The agency consists of Rewa State and I I minor States and estates, of which the more important are Maihar, Nagode and Sohawal. The country is geographically and historically akin to Bundelkhand (q.v.), and is very susceptible to drought and famine. Wilson's Glossary of Indian Terms says that the Baghelas are a branch of the Sisodhyia Rajputs who migrated eastward and once ruled in Gujarat.