Battle of Anandpur (1700)
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)| Battle of Anandpur (1700) | |||||||
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| Part of Mughal-Sikh Wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Khalsa (Sikhs) |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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 Din Beg (WIA) Painde Khan † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 7,000[2] | 10,000 Mughals[3] + unknown number of hill raja troops | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown, General Painde Khan was killed by Guru Gobind Singh.[1] | ||||||
The Battle of Anandpur was fought at
Cause
The increasing power of Guru Gobind Singh, and his establishment of a military order (
The Mughal viceroy of Delhi sent his generals Din Beg and Painda Khan, each with an army of five thousand men, to subdue the Guru under direct orders from Aurangzeb.Panj Piare, his five beloved Sikhs, as the generals of his army.[3]
Battle
According to the Sikh chronicles, Guru Gobind Singh refused to play the role of an aggressor, as he had vowed never to strike except in
self-defence
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In the course of a long action near Anandpur, northeast of Ludhiana, Painda Khan was killed—reputedly in
Rupar.[3]
Aftermath
After the Mughal generals failed to drive off the Guru from Anandpur, the hill Rajas formed an alliance and attacked Anandpur, leading to the
Battle of Anandpur (1701).[8]
In popular culture
- The Battle of Anandpur is depicted in the movie Chaar Sahibzaade.[citation needed]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-33536-5. Archived from the originalon 2015-06-26.
- ISBN 978-81-7601-480-9.
- ^ ISBN 9788126908585.
- ISBN 9780199931453.
- OCLC 5880923.
- ^ Gandhi, Surjit Singh. A Historians Approach To Guru Gobind Singh. p. 253.
- OCLC 1888987.
- ISBN 9788189899554.
