CHHATARPUR, an Indian state in the Bundelkhand agency of Central India. Area 1,13o sq.m. ; pop. (1931) 161,267. The chief, whose hereditary title is raja, is a Rajput of the Pon war clan, whose ancestor dispossessed the descendant of Chhatar Sal, the founder of Bundelkhand independence, towards the end of the 18th century. The state was guaranteed to Kunwar Sone Sah Ponwar in 1806. In 18J4 it would have lapsed to the British Government for want of direct heirs, but was conferred on Jagat Raj as a special act of grace. The present chief has the title of Maharaja, and a salute of I1 guns. The town of Chhatar pur, which is named after Chhatar Sal, and contains his cenotaph, is 7o m. by road south-west of Banda. Pop. (1931) 10,305. There are manufactures of paper and coarse cutlery. The state also contains the British cantonment of Nowgong.