Transcript Banda Bahadur Singh - Sikh Missionary Society

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Born 1670 at Rajauri, Kashmir
Name - Lachman Das
Shot a doe (female deer)
Left home to join the sadhus (saints)
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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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Met Guru Gobind Singh in autumn 1708
Took amrit
New name - Banda Singh
Set off to fight with mughal rulers with 25
sikhs
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
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
Banda Singh Bahadur
• Struck coins in the name of Guru Nanak
and Guru Gobind
• His biggest acheivement was the
redistribution of land
Banda Singh Bahadur
• Uprising in the Majha
• Took Kalanaur Batala, Pathankot
• Capatured Jullandur, HoshiarPur in Autumn
1710
• Ghazis smashed by the sikhs
• Banda Singh Bahadur’s influence all over
Punjab
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
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 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
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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• Even Banda Singh’s 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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• 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