 In the year 1562, Akbar the Great vanquished the Malwa ruler Baz Bahadur and conquered Malwa, made it a Mughal dominion.Consequently, the state boundary of Rani touched the Mughal Sultanate.Rani's contemporary was a Mughal General, Khwaja Abdul Majid Asaf Khan, an ambitious man who vanquished Ramchandra, the ruler of Rewa.