The Institutes of Akbar 260.1

260.1

Turbat is the name of a tribe (ulis) in Khurasan. His full name is, Khwajah Muzaffar ’Ali Khan i Turbati. He was Bairam’s Diwan. Bairam delegated him from Dipalpur to Sher Muhammad Diwanah (p. 317), who sent him in chains to Akbar. Though several courtiers advised the Emperor to kill Muzaffar, he pardoned him, and made him ’Amil (Collector) of the Parganah of Parsaror. Subsequently Akbar made him Diwan i Buyutat (Collector of the Imperial Stores, &c.), and at last Diwan of the Empire, with the title of Muzaffar Khan (971). Rajah Todarmall was then under him. According to Badaoni, the two quarrelled incessantly, though people said that the Rajah was a better financier than Muzaffar, whose accession to office was honored by the short tarikh ظالم, zalim (= 971), or ‘Tyrant.’