The Institutes of Akbar 267: 44. Ra‘i Ra‘isingh, son of Rai Kalyan Mall (No. 93).

The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 267

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44. Ra‘i Ra‘isingh, son of Rai Kalyan Mall (No. 93).

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Rai Singh belonged to the Rathors of Bikanir, and is the fourth descendant from Rai Maldeo. His father, Kalyan Mall, was a friend of Bairam (p. 316), and paid, in the 15th year, his respects to Akbar at Ajmir, when he together with his son entered the emperor's service. He also sent his brother's daughter to Akbar’s Harem. Kalyan Mall was in the 40th year a Commander of Two Thousand.
Rai Singh, in the 17th year, when Akbar made preparations to crush the rebellion in Gujrat, occupied Jodhpur, the old seat of Mal Deo, in order to prevent the rebels from invading the Dihli territory; but Ibrahim, after his defeat at Sarnal, invaded Akbar’s territory, and besieged Nagor, which at that time was the tuyul of Khan i Kalan (No. 16), and was defended by his son, Farrukh Khan (p. 322). R. came to his relief, and the Mirza had not only to raise the siege, but was pursued, and defeated by R. In the following year also, R. distinguished himself in the engagement with Muhammad Husain Mirza (p. 325).
In the 19th year, R. and Shah Quli Mahram (No. 45) were ordered to punish Chandr Sen, son of Rajah Mal Deo; but as they were unable to take Siwanah, Chandr Sen’s stronghold, notwithstanding the auxiliaries which Akbar had sent them at R.’s request, R., in the 21st year, was called to Court, and Shahbaz Khan (No. 81) took the command. Before the end of the same year, however, R. and Tarson Muhammad Khan (No. 32) were sent against the refractory zamindars of Jalor and Sarohi; but as they applied to Akbar for pardon, R. and Sayyid Hashim of Barhah (No. 143) garrisoned Nadot to watch the Rana of Udaipur, and bring the rebels of those districts to obedience. As at this time Sultan Deodah, the zamindar of Sarohi, from distrust again assumed a hostile attitude, R. marched against Sarohi and besieged it. During the siege, R. called his family to his camp; but Sultán Deodah fell upon the caravan, killed several relations of R., and then withdrew to Abúgarh. R. in the meantime took Sarohí, and hastened to Abúgarh, which Sultán surrendered. R. left a garrison there, and took Sultán to Court.
In the 26th year, when Mírzá Muhammad Hakím, Akbar’s brother, threatened to invade the Panjáb, R. together with several other grandees was sent in advance. They were soon followed by Prince Murád. When the imperial army, in the end of the same year, returned to Ágrah, R. and several others were sent as tuyúldárs to the Panjáb. In the 28th year, he served in Bengal.
In the 30th year, R. and Ismá’íl Qulí Khán (vide No. 46) led successfully an expedition against the Balúchís. In the following year (19th Rajab, 994), R.’s daughter was married to Prince Salím. In the 35th year, he went for some time to Bíkánír, and served, in the end of the 36th year, in Sindh under M. ’Abdurrahím (No. 29).
In the 38th year, Akbar paid R. a visit of condolence. The son of Rájah Rámchand Baghelah of Bándhú died suddenly on his way to Bándhú, to which he had only lately, after the death of his father, been appointed. The young Rájah had married a daughter of R. Akbar interceded for their young children, and prevented R.’s daughter from burning herself. Soon after, R. stayed away from Court for some reason, during which time one of his servants complained of him to Akbar. The emperor called the man to court; but R. concealed him, and gave out, he had run away. Akbar was annoyed and excluded R. for some time from the darbárs; but after some time he restored him and sent him as governor to Súrat, with the order to assist in the Dak’hin wars. R., however, delayed in Bíkánír, and when he had at last left, delayed on the road to Súrat. Akbar advised him to be obedient; but seeing that he would not go, called him to Court, but without allowing him to attend the darbárs. After some time he was pardoned.
In the 45th year, R. was ordered to accompany Abulfazl to Násik; but as his son Dalpat (No. 252) had caused disturbances in Bíkánír (vide p. 359), R. got leave to go home. In the following year, he went again to court. In the 48th year, he served under Prince Salím against the Ráná of Udaipúr.
At the death of the emperor, R. was a Commander of Four Thousand. Jahángír, on his accession, made him a Commander of Five Thousand. When the emperor set out for the Panjab to pursue Khusrau, R. was put in charge of the travelling harem; but on the road he left without order and went to Bikanir. In the second year, when Jahangir returned from Kabul, R., at the advice of Sharif Khan, presented himself before the emperor with a fautah round his neck, to shew his willingness to suffer punishment for his crimes, and was again pardoned. He died in 1021.

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His sons. 1. Dalpat (No. 252). He was a Commander of Five Hundred. In the 36th year, he served in the Sind war, but was looked upon as a coward. In the 45th year, when Akbar was in the Dak’hin, Muzaffar Husain Mirza, in consequence of his differences with Khwajagi Fathullah, had fled; and Dalpat, under the pretext of following him up, had gone to Bikanir and created disturbances. In the 46th year, his father brought him to his senses. D. asked to be pardoned, and was ordered again to come to Court.
In the third year of Jahangir’s reign (1017), he appears to have offended the emperor; but at the request of Khan Jahan Lodi he was pardoned. After the death of his father, D. came from the Dak’hin to Court, was appointed successor, and got the title of Rai, although his younger brother (by another mother), Sur Singh, claimed the right of succession, which Rai Singh had promised him from affection to his mother. Sur Singh, however, disgusted Jahangir by the bold way in which he preferred his claim.
D. was then ordered to join M. Rustam Safawi (No. 8), the governor of Sind. In the 8th year, it was reported to Jahangir that Sur Singh had attacked and defeated his brother, who in consequence had created disturbances in Hisar. Hashim, the Faujdar of that Sirkar, caught him and sent him fettered to court, where he was executed as a warning to others.
For Dalpat’s son, Mahes Das, and grandson, Ratan, vide Padishahnamah, pp. 635, 723; 684, 729.

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2. Sur Singh. After the death of his brother he rose to favor. In Histories he is generally called Rao Sur Singh, a title which he received from Shahjahan. He died in 1040. He had two sons, Karan and Satr Sal, the former of whom inherited the title of Rao (vide Padishahnamah II, p. 727).