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Kalyan Mall, of the Hutwa family, may be justly ascribed to the fact that 
we have fixed the date of bis ascension to be 1600 A.D., i.e ., at a period 
posterior to that of which the Ain gives the list. Bat fortunately we 
can very fairly and safely trace from the Ain incidents in which Kalyan 
Mall must have taken share and which caused his rise. Muzaifar had 
commenced vigorously to collect the outstanding from Makhsum Kabli 
and several other grandees that held jagirs in Behar, upon which they 
had rebelled and joined with the rebel jagirdars of Bengal under 
Babu Khan Qushqal. On Muzaffar’s death the rebels occupied the whole 
of Bengal and Behar, and Akbar sent Todar Mall to Behar to subdue 
the rebels. Makhsum Khan Hazari, who had received Ghazipur as his 
tuyul, joined Sadar Mall, bat was anxious to go over to the rebels and ac¬ 
tually did so, finding the Emperor personally embarrassed in the sub¬ 
jugation of his brother, who had threatened to invade the Punjab. He 
seized Jaunpur, but was defeated near Oudh by Shahbaz Khan. He 
then collected his men and surprised and plundered the town of Bah- 
raich. From Bahraich he was driven by the imperialists (amongst whom 
was Yazir Khan and others from Hajipur) over Kalyanpur to Muhammad- 
abad (in Ghazipur), which he plundered and prepared to attack Jaun¬ 
pur. Shahan Khan Jalair, from Narhan, and PaharKhan, from Ghazipur, 
united their contingents and pursued Makhsum so effectually that he 
applied to Aziz Kokah to intercede for him with the Emperor. Akbar 
pardoned him and gave him Pergannah Mehsi, Sircar Champaran, as 
tuyul (Blochmann’s Ain-i-Alcbari , Yol. I, pages 350, 351, 400, 410, 443, 
444). 
With these facts in view it seems doubtless that Raja Kalyan 
Mall was not idle enough to partake a share in subduing the rebellion 
raging in his own country and in the vicinity. Further, we find his 
seat, Kalyanpur distinctly mentioned also in Yol. II, Fasc. II, p. 156, of 
Colonel H. S. Jarrett’s Ain-i-Akbari, to be in Sircar Saran. 
We can, therefore, very well deduce that the services of Raja Kalyan 
Mall were recognised and he was made a “ Maharaja ” in the latter 
part of Akbar’s reign. 
