"The Sultan threw a banquet to celebrate the occasion. The distinguished officers of his court who were invited to it were all elevated with the title of Mir Maran. Among them was Saiyid Gafar, Muhammad Raza (also known as Benki Nawab), the maternal uncle of Haidar and grandfather of the Sultan, Khan Jehan Khan and Purnaiya. Kirmani explains why Muhammad Raza got the name Benki Nawab—benki, in Kannada meant fire. During one of the Malabar conquests, Raza had been sent to quell the Nair revolts. ‘Having brought the signs of the last day,’ writes Kirmani, ‘on these misguided people, and having taken many of them prisoners, he shut them with their wives and children up in a house and burned them alive. He was therefore, called by this name.’"
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Kirmani, in Vikram Sampath - Tipu - The Saga of Mysore's Interregnum (2024)
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