The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.129

v4.c16.129

During 1590 the rebellion in Bengal, Bihār and Orissa was finally crushed by Mān Singh and his son, Jagat Singh. The great Hindu landholders, encouraged by the many Muslim rebels who yet remained in arms, had ceased to pay revenue, or to admit imperial officials to their estates. Order was first restored in Bihār, and Mān Singh marched in the spring through Chotā Nāgpur to Orissa. He received some slight assistance from Sa‘īd Khān, now governor of Bengal, and prepared to attack Qutlū Khān Lohānī, who advanced to meet him. Qutlū was a rebel who, by formally submitting, had been recognised as governor of Orissa, and, having been left in peace there, had ceased to remit revenue to the capital or to acknowledge Akbar as his sovereign. He was now in failing health, and died before he could meet Mān Singh in the field. The Afghān officers attempted to set up his young son, Nasīr Khān, as their leader, but they were neither sufficiently strong nor sufficiently united to withstand Mān Singh, and sought safety in submission, but the weakness of the imperial cause in this remote province was disclosed by the terms of peace. Nasīr Khān made his submission in person to Mān Singh, and undertook that the *khutba* should be recited and the currency issued in Akbar’s name, in return for which, and for 150 elephants and other tribute, he was confirmed in the government of Orissa. Hindu sentiment was conciliated and imperial authority asserted by the classification of the sacred area of Purī and Jagannāth as crown land.