Twilight of the Sultanate c7.s1.53

c7.s1.53

⁵³ All MSS. mention Kamāluddīn as being the brother of Rao Daljīt. Dowson expressed surprise at this because one brother had a Muslim name while the other had a Hindu name (E and D, III, 425 n. and 499). There were large scale conversions throughout the medieval period. Kamāluddīn Maīn may be one of the converts and a distant cousin, if not a real brother, of Daljīt. T.M.S. gives the name as Kamāluddīn Maīn مین. Maīn are a branch or sect of the Bhattīs. "The term Bhattī is commonly applied to any Musalman, Jat or Rajput, from the direction of the Sutlej, as a generic term". (Crooke, *Tribes and Castes*, 14; cited in Hodivala, 360). Yahya calls Daljīt and his son Hansū (Hansrāj) Bhaṭṭīs while Rai Kamāluddīn Maīn and his son Dāūd are invariably styled Maīns. T.M.S., 157 and ff; E and D, IV, 22, 28, 29, 32, 40. Baranī also mentions Bhaṭṭīs and Maīns.