Career
He served as a Prime Minister (1833–1844) during Nawab Sikandar Jah of Hyderabad State. He was also a great poet of Urdu and Persian. who served in the Mughal courts and his great grand parents included Raja Todar Mal, the Finance Minister of Akbar the Great. The family is famously known as Malwala in Hyderabad, India, Later he served as transactor of business manager and received the title of Raja Bahadur from Nawab Sikandar Jah.
He led a successful expedition against Sidat fort and Konji Kota districts.
Sikandar Jah selected him as accounts officer of his army. Later the then prime minister Monir-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad State, assigned him the financial and judicial affairs of the state.
In 1822 he was made the head of seven thousand horsemen with the title of Raja e Rajagan from Nawab Nasir ud dawlah. After the death of Monir-ul-Mulk in 1833, Chandu Lal succeeded him as a prime minister.
Chandu Lal was made prime minister in the year 1833 AD and he hold the office until 1844 AD.