south respectively, being joined by the extreme outer boundary lines of the States of Jesulmer, Bikanir, Dholpur, and Banswara On the west Rajputana is bounded by the province of Sinde, and on the north-west by the State of Bahawulpur; thence all its northern and eastern frontier marches with the Punjab and the North-Western Provinces, until, as it turns south-eastward, it touches Sindiafs country: and its southern boundary run across the central region of India in an irregular, zigzag line, which separates the Rajputana States from a number of other Native States in Central India, and which marks off generally the northern extension of that great belt of territory subject, mediately or immediately, to the Maratha powers Sindia, Holkar, and the Gaekwar.

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