The Institutes of Akbar 369: Commanders of Nine Hundred.

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138. Ku’chak ’Ali’ Kha’n i Kola’bi’.
Kolab is the name of a town and a district in Badakhshan, Long. 70°, Lat. 38°. The District of Kolab lies north of Badakhshan Proper, from which it is separated by the Amu (Oxus); but it was looked upon as part of the kingdom of Badakhshan. Hence Kuchak ’Ali is often called in the Akbarnamah Kuchak ‘Ali Khan i Badakhshi.
He served under Mun’im Khan against Khan Zaman, and was present at the reconciliation at Baksar (Buxar) in the 10th year.
He also served under Mun’im Khan in Bengal, and held a command in the battle of Takaroi (p. 375).
His sons are mentioned below, No. 148, and No. 380.
139. Sabdal Kha’n, Sumbul, a slave of Humayun.
140. Sayyid Muhammad, Mir ’Adl, a Sayyid of Amrohah.
Amrohah, formerly a much more important town than now, belongs to Sirkar Sambal. Its Sayyids belonged to old families of great repute throughout India.
Mir Sayyid Muhammad had studied the Hadis and law under the best teachers of the age. The father of the Historian Badaoni was his friend. Akbar made Sayyid Muhammad Mir ’Adl. When the learned were banished from Court (ikhraj i ’ulama), he was made governor of Bhakkar. He died there two years later in 985 or 986.
From the Akbarnamah we see that S. Muhammad with other Amrohah Sayyids served, in the 18th year, under S. Mahmud of Barha in the expedition against Rajah Madhukar.
He advised the Historian Badaoni to enter the military service of the emperor, instead of trusting to learning and to precarious Madad i Ma’ash tenures, an advice resembling that of ’Abdulghaffar (vide No. 99, p. 413). S. Muhammad's sons were certainly all in the army; vide No. 251, 297, 363.
141. Razawi’ Kha’n, Mirza Mirak, a Razawi Sayyid of Mashhad.
He was a companion of Khan Zaman (No. 13). In the 10th year, he went to the camp of the Imperialists to obtain pardon for his master. When in the 12th year Khan Zaman again rebelled, Mirza Mirak was placed under the charge of Khan Baqi Khan (No. 60), but fled from his custody (at Dihli, Badaoni II, 100). After Khan Zaman’s death, he was captured, and Akbar ordered him daily to be thrown before a mast elephant; but the driver was ordered to spare him as he was a man of illustrious descent. This was done for five days, when at the intercession of the courtiers he was set at liberty. Shortly afterwards, he received a mansab and the title of Razawi Khan. In the 19th year, he was made Diwan of Jaunpur, and in the 24th year, Bakhshi of Bengal in addition to his former duties.
At the outbreak of the Bengal Military Revolt (25th year), he was with Muzaffar Khan (No. 37). His harsh behaviour towards the dissatisfied grandees is mentioned in the histories as one of the causes of the revolt. When the rebels had seceded (9th Zi Hajjah, 987) and gone from Tāndah to Gaur, Muzaffar sent Razawī Khān, Rāi Patr Dās (No. 196), and Mīr Ahmad Munshī to them to try to bring them back to obedience. Things took indeed a good turn and everything might have ended peacefully, when some of Rāi Patr Dās’s Rājpūts said that the opportunity should not be thrown away to kill the whole lot. Rāi Patr Dās mentioned this to Razawī Khān, and through him, it appears, the rebels heard of it. They took up arms and caught Rāi Patr Dās. Razawī Khān and Mīr Ahmad Munshī surrendered themselves.
The Badāonī says that nothing else is known of Razawī Khān. The Tabaqāt says that he was a Commander of Two Thousand and was dead in 1001.
Mīrzā Mīrak is not to be confounded with Mīrak Khān, ‘an old grandee, who died in 975’ (Tabaqāt); or with Mīrak Bahādur (208).
Shāhjahān conferred the title of Razawī Khān on Sayyid 'Alī, son of Çadru-ç-çudūr Mīrān S. Jalāl of Bukhārā.