(90) Pataspur: area, 38,857 acres, or 60.71 square miles; 23 estates; 167 villages; amount of land revenue in 1849, £ 3332, 14s. od., or an average assessment of Is. 8 ½ d. per acre; principal villages, Kasba and Pachet; Subordinate Judge's Court at Dantun; estimated population, 19,3000. The pargana is temporarily settled; the last Settlement expired in 1872, and a new one is now (1873) in process of formation. Mr. Bayley states that this pargana up to 1803 A.D. was a Marhatta estate, and was ceded by them to the English along with the Province of Orissa. The greater part of Pataspur was then in the hands of a lady named Renuka Debi Chaudhrain, and this was taken over and remained under direct Government management until 1806, when it was transferred to the Hijili Collectorate, and a five years, Settlement was made with Debi Chaudhrain. She subsequently adopted one Kisori Nandan Choudhri as her heir, but died while he was a minor. A five years' Settlement was then made with Jasoda Nandan Chaudhri, the father of Kisori Nandam Choudhri, but in the name of the letter. The father died just at the expiration of the Settlement, and the minor's elder brother was appointed manager until he should become of age. Kisori Nandan Choudhri attained his majority in 1810, and periodical short Settlements of the estate were made with him.

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At one of these Settlements the assessment made upon the Pargana was higher than the proprietor would agree to, and it was consequently farmed out for three years. Subsequently Kisori Nandan agreed to take the land at the assessment which he had refused before. In 1825, Pataspur was re-transferred to Midnapore Collectorate. Between 1833 and 1836 a detailed Settlement of the estate was made under the provisions of Regulation VII. Of 1822, in which the whole pargana was re-measured. Kisori Nandan refused to accept the Settlement, and the Pargana was placed under Government management till 1839, when he agreed to the Settlement at the assessment which had been fixed on the land.

Kisori Nandan died in 1845, leaving an adopted son, a minor, who in 1851 was a ward of the Collector of the district. Pataspur produces spring and autumn rice, sugar-cane, oil-seeds, tobacco, and a little mulberry. A Muhammadan madrasha, or charitable school, is situated in Pataspur, to which an allowance of fifty maunds of salt per annum, and one rupee per diem, are assigned for the support of the Muhammadan priest in charge of the institution. A grant of two hundred bighas of rent free land was also assigned for the support of the institution by the Marhattas; and the endowment was upheld and confirmed by the British when the Pargana was transferred to us. Mr. Bayley stated in 1851, that forty pupils were then borne on the rolls of the school, but that the institution was very badly managed, and required thorough reform.