Pendra

Pendra lies among the wooded hills below the Amarkantak plateau, near the headwaters of the Son. Its estate formed part of the northern hill country beyond the Chhattisgarh plain. A route crossed these hills through Kenda and Pendra toward Sohagpur and Rewa, following difficult tracks through forest. Local tradition traces the Pendra chiefs to brothers rewarded with the estate by a Kalachuri king of Ratanpur.

The family retained its estate under the Marathas until the end of the eighteenth century. Pendra Garh also became a centre of Pindari raiders, whose expeditions reached as far as Ratanpur and Jabalpur. In 1818, after British authority had been established in Chhattisgarh, Colonel Agnew restored the estate to Ajit Singh, a descendant of its earlier holders.