Raisin

Raisin takes its name from a strong fort in eastern Malwa, a place of consequence in the history of the region. In the fifteenth century the fortress was held by the sultans of Mandu before passing to Rajput rulers. Babur mentioned it in his memoirs, and in 1543 Sher Shah Suri captured it from Puran Mal. Under Akbar, Raisin became the seat of a sarkar in the Mughal province of Malwa.

The fort remained under a Mughal commander into the eighteenth century. In 1756 Faiz Muhammad Khan of Bhopal occupied it and later obtained recognition from the emperor Alamgir II as its faujdar. The fortified hill thus passed into the hands of the rulers of Bhopal as Mughal authority in Malwa weakened.