Gobind Rai, nine years old, points to his father's severed head's resting place and is proclaimed the tenth Guru; from Anandpur he builds the community into a sovereign body, fighting hill rajas and Mughal forces, and prepares the transformation he completes in 1699.
Tagged: Sikh The Khalsa Panth
The Event
- Date
- 1675 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Anandpur; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- The Khalsa Panth
- Key figures
- Guru Gobind Singh
Primary Sources
- The Guru's hukamnamas, his letters to the congregations
Secondary Sources
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0514; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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