Mau Ganj

Mau Ganj, or Mau Raj, was a Sengar Rajput kingdom in the country later called Bagelkhand. The Sengars had come from Jalaun and built mud forts against the Kalachuri rajas.

In the fourteenth century the Baghelas defeated the Sengars and took Mau. A junior prince had already withdrawn into nearby woodland; his son Chattradhari Singh built the fort of Nai Garhi. Sengar chiefs retained a small estate there, and in 1813 fought British sepoys near Itar.