A short #thread on the #martyrdom of Banda Singh Bahadur.
Ultimately, Banda Singh, along with his companions, was captured on this day, 7th December, 307 years ago in 1715.
They were ordered by the Emperor to be brought to Delhi on camels with disgrace and humiliation. (1) 1/
Ultimately, Banda Singh, along with his companions, was captured on this day, 7th December, 307 years ago in 1715.
They were ordered by the Emperor to be brought to Delhi on camels with disgrace and humiliation. (1) 1/
Zakariya Khan feeling the number of prisoners to be too small, roped in more (2) from the villages on the way until the number of prisoners rose to about 800 and of the heads hoisted on spears to 2,000. 2/
Besides, seven hundred cart loads of the Sikh heads also accompanied the gruesome show.(3)
The prisoners were executed at Delhi. As if insensitive to the pains of death, they would calmly offer their necks to the executioner’s sword and drink the cup of martyrdom. 3/
The prisoners were executed at Delhi. As if insensitive to the pains of death, they would calmly offer their necks to the executioner’s sword and drink the cup of martyrdom. 3/
"Me, deliverer, kill me first" was the prayer which constantly rang in the ears of the executioner.
There was a youngman, whose widow mother had made many applications to the Mughal officials, declaring that her son was a prisoner. 4/
There was a youngman, whose widow mother had made many applications to the Mughal officials, declaring that her son was a prisoner. 4/
A release was granted and she hastened to claim her son. But the boy turned from her to meet his doom crying, "I know not this woman, what does she want with me?" I am a true and loyal Sikh. 5/
Surman and Stephenson write that, "It is not a little remarkable with what patience they under go their fate.” For a whole week the sword of the executioner did its butcher's work. 6/
Every day a hundred brave men perished and at night the headless bodies were loaded into carts, taken out of the city, and hung upon trees. 7/
Banda Singh was executed on June 10, 1716, along with his suckling son, in the neighbourhood of the dargah (mausoleum) of Hazrat Khawaja Qutb-ud-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki near Mehraulli, Delhi. 8/
In the words of Elphinstone, Banda Singh died “glorying in having been raised up by God to be the scourge to the iniquities and oppression of the age.” (5)
1) Ibratnama
2) Bansavalinama
3) A Short History of the Sikhs 9/
1) Ibratnama
2) Bansavalinama
3) A Short History of the Sikhs 9/
4) A letter dated Delhi, March 10, 1716, written by Messrs. John Surman and Edward Stephenson to the Hon'ble Robert Hedges, President and Governor of Fort William, Council in Bengal.
5) Elphinstone, History of India, London, 1874
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5) Elphinstone, History of India, London, 1874
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