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24/06/22 06:50 AM IST

Baba Banda Singh Bahadur

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  • National Monuments Authority is observing the great warrior Baba Banda Singh Bahadur's martyrdom.
Baba Banda Singh Bahadur 
  • Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was a great Sikh warrior and a commander of Khalsa army who defeated the Mughals and freed a large part of North India.
  • He established the Khalsa rule in Punjab.
  • Banda Singh Bahadur abolished the Zamindari system, and granted property rights to the tillers of the land.
  • He was a Noble ruler who introduced the Nanak Shahi coins. 
  • He was captured by Mughal ruler Farrukhsiyar and brought to Delhi and put to death in a most inhuman manner.
  • He was given the name ‘’Madho Das’’.
  • He established a monastery at Nānded, on the bank of the river Godāvarī, where in 1708 he became a disciple of, Guru Gobind Singh, who gave him the new name of Banda Bahadur.
Source- PIB 

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