Today Maluti is endangered by insufficient management of the old temples, and threatened by natural disasters.

[2] Maluti village came into limelight in fifteenth century as the capital of nankar raj (tax-free kingdom).

The kingdom was awarded to one Basanta Roy of village Katigram by Sultan Alauddin Hussan Shah of Gauḍa (1495–1525).

The name Baj Basanta is comparatively prominent because it can be found both in local history and government records.

Since then the head of Sumeru Math who is called Rajguru becomes the preceptor of descendants of king Baj Banata.

How Maluti — the capital of Baj Basanta dynasty — turn out to be a 'temple city' is also an interesting story.

In another opinion the name of the village Maluti probably comes from Mallahati of Malla Kings of Bankura, Vishnupur had suzerainty over this area.

That point of time this area ruled by Malla kings of Bankura was Damin-i-koh ( present pakur in north.

Burdwan in the east, Midnapore in south and some portion of Chota Nagpur Plateau in west) This vast land was called Mallabhum.

[1] Around 1857, Swami Bamdev (or Sadhak Bamakhyapa), one of Bengal's greatest spiritual leaders, came here to be a priest but failed because he couldn't memorise Sanskrit mantras.

But Maluti, may not be in this name, existed long before being the kingdom of the tax-exempted capital of Baj Basanta dynasty.

Dandiswami of Varanasi's Sumeru Math still comes here once a year as part of the ritual that began with Adi Shankaracharya.

The river Chila is flowing at the edge of the village and marks the boundary of Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Acheulian found at Maluti Sadarghaton Chila, the river that flows in Birbhum – Jharkhand border land.

Acheulian finds discovered from three localities one of them fossiliferous include hand axes, cleavers, choppers, scrappers and unqualified wastes, flakes, cores and chips are made of raw materials — traps, basalts, quartzites, charts, jasper.

It is alleged that the king of Nankar state originally constructed 108 temples, but later generations could not maintain such a huge number of monuments, and most were left uncared for.