Baba Banda Singh Bahadur

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History of Banda Singh Bahadur

• Banda Singh Bahadur, also called Lachman Das, Lachman Dev, or Madho Das, (born 1670, Rajauri [India]—died June 1716, Delhi),
• He was the first Sikh military leader to wage an offensive war against the Mughal rulers of India, thereby temporarily extending Sikh territory.
• He was the founder of first Sikh raj, who abolished Zamindari system in Punjab and conferred ownership rights on the tillers of the land 
• Famous for the sack of the Mughal provincial capital, Sirhind, he is revered as one of the most hallowed martyrs of the Khalsa.
• As a youth, he decided to be a samana (ascetic), and until 1708, when he became a disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, he was known as Madho Das.
• After his initiation into the Sikh brotherhood, he took the name Banda Singh Bahadur and became respected.
• Banda Singh set out in 1709 to attack the Mughals, conquering large tracts of territory. 
• His pillaging and massacring in the Deccan led the Mughal rulers finally to move against him in force. 
• After an eight-month siege, the fortress town of Gurdas Nangal fell to the Mughals in 1715. 
• Banda Singh and his men were taken as prisoners to Delhi, where every day for six months a few of his men were taken out and executed. 
• When his own turn came, Banda Singh stated to the Muslim judge that this fate befell him just because he had failed his beloved Guru Gobind Singh. 
• He was tortured to death with red-hot irons.

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