The Imperial Gazetteer of India Gyaraspur to Jais

It is the head-quarters of the Subdivisional Magitrate and his assistants and of the four Munsifs who dispose of the civil business of the subdivision. [...] It lies in the north-west of the peninsula and embraces the level tract between the Gulf of Cutch the aluka of Okhamandal (Baroda territory) the Baia hills and the Arabian Sea. [...] It is bounded on the north by the Jumna which separates it from Cawnpore and Fatepur and by the Betwa which divides it from Jalaun and the Native State of Baoni ; on the west the Dhasan separates it from Jhansi ; on the south lie the States of Alipurd Chhatarpur and Charkhari ; and on the east the District marches with Banda. [...] In 168o the District came into the possession of Chhatarsal the great national hero of the Bundelas and was the theatre of many battles during his long struggle with the imperial forces under Muhammad Khan the Bangash Nawab of Farrukhabad and governor of Allahabad. [...] The town of Mahoba itself with the surrounding country remained in the hands of the Pandits of Jalaun until on the death of their last representative in 1840 it lapsed to the British.