Banda Singh Bahadur

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Born 1670 at Rajauri, Kashmir
• Name - Lachman Das
• Shot a doe (female deer)
• Left home to join the sadhus (saints)

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Became a hermit
• New name - Madho Das Bairagi
• Learnt Yoga and magi skills
• Founded a hermitage at Nanded
• Spent 16 years there

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Met Guru Gobind Singh in autumn 1708
• Took amrit
• New name - Banda Singh
• Set off to fight with mughal rulers with 25 sikhs

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Conquests
• Reached Punjab in September 1709
• Took Samana in November 1709 where the
  executioners of Guru Tegh Bahadur and the 2
  younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh lived
• Took Sadhauru in March 1710 where Pir Budhu Shah
  used to live

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Battle of Sirhind in May 12 - May 14th 1710 and
  killed Wazir Khan
• Made his capital at Mukhlispur
• In his 3rd incarnation Banda Singh became a king

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Struck coins in the name of Guru Nanak and Guru
  Gobind
• His biggest acheivement was the redistribution of
  land

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Uprising in the Majha
• Took Kalanaur Batala, Pathankot
• Capatured Jullandur, HoshiarPur in Autumn 1710
• Ghazis smashed by the sikhs
• Banda Singh Bahadurs influence all over Punjab

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• The emporor of India, Bahadur Shah called his
  best armies from Delhi, Utta Padeh and Oudh
• Attacked Sirhind Mukhlispur Dec. 1710
• Banda Singh escaped the emporer disheartened

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Bahadur Shah dies 17th February 1712
• All dogs in Lahore killed
• Jahandar became emporer after killing his
  brothers
• He was then killed by his nephew, Farrukh Siyer
• Abdus Samad Khan, his son Zakarya Khan, governer
  of Lahore

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Banda won back Mukhlispur Sadhauru
• Banda Singh disappeared into the hills in
  February 1715
• Came back for his final stand at Gurdas Nangal
• Laid down arms in December 1715

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Procession and executions at Dehli
• 740 prisoners, 2000 sikh heads offered a pardon
• Banda Singh, his son Ajay Singh aged 4 killed
  Sunday, 19th June 1716

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Even Banda Singhs enemies could not help
  admiring his bravery.
• The historian of that period Kanwar Khan wrote
  It was by the grace of God and not by wisdom or
  bravery that this came to happen.

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Banda Singh Bahadur

• Every body knows that the emperor Bahudur Shah
  with Royal princes and many other generals made
  efforts to defeat Banda Singh, but it was all
  useless.
• Now that infidel of sikhs and a few thousands of
  his companions have been starved into surrender

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