The Rajmahal hills, the campaign board's "Sena of Bengal, secure" but in fact a hill country of its own: Paharia villages (Malto-speaking, in later accounts) that the Sena guard on the Teliagarhi gap leaves alone, and that Bakhtiyar's column passes in the hot-weather roads of 1202 to 1205.
English Wikipedia's Oraon page records that the Malto language is linked in scholars' hypotheses to the Rajmahal hills. No political fact for 1200 is recorded.
Who he is
- Name
- not named
- Title
- Village headmen of the Rajmahal hills
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- No name or date is recorded for 1200.
- Confidence
- low
English Wikipedia, Oraon people (Malto).
What it holds
- The hill villages above the Ganges gap
Allies and rivals
The Senas below, who tax the foot of the hills; the Ghurids after 1202.
How things stand that morning
Independent hill villages.
Wealth
Hill produce, honey, wax and iron.
Military
Bowmen; no numbers.
Threats
- The Turkish road through the gap, from about 1202
Places of note
- Rajmahal: Foot of the hills.
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board entry the-rajmahal-hills is "secure" for the Senas; we treat the hill foot as Sena and the hills as peoples' ground.
Evidence: No contemporary source.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: The range is drawn as a province (the matching nie-prov record); this record draws no ground of its own.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.