The Institutes of Akbar 361: 130. Mihr ’Ali’ Kha‘n Sildoz.

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Sildoz is the name of a Chaghta'i clan. According to the Tabaqat, he was at first in Bairam’s service. In the end of 966, Akbar sent him to Fort Chandah (Chunar), which Jamal Khan, the Afghan Commander, wished to hand over to the Imperialists for a consideration (vide Badaoni II., 32). Akbar offered him five parganahs near Jaunpur, but Jamal did not deem the offer sufficiently advantageous, and delayed Mihr ’Ali with vain promises. Mihr ’Ali at last left suddenly for Agrah.
On his journey to Chandah, he had been accompanied by the Historian Badaoni, then a young man, whom he had given lodging in his house at Agrah. On his return from the Fort, Badaoni nearly lost his life during a sudden storm whilst on the river.
Badaoni calls him Mihr ’Ali Beg, and says that he was later made a Khan and Governor of Chitor.
He served under Adham Khan (No. 10) in Malwah, and in the Gujrat wars of 980 and 981. In the 22nd year, Akbar was on a hunting tour near Hisar, and honored him by being his guest. In the following year, he attended Sakinah Banu Begum, whom Akbar sent to Kabul to advise his brother, Mirza Muhammad Hakim. In the 25th year, he served under Todar Mall against the rebel ’Arab.
The Tabaqat makes him a Commander of Fifteen Hundred, and says that he was dead in 1001.