Har Krishan becomes Guru at five years old, the youngest of the line, and dies of smallpox at Delhi three years later while serving the city's sick in an epidemic; the gurdwara Bangla Sahib stands where he stayed, and his last words point to the next Guru at Bakala.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- 1661 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Delhi; today Delhi, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Har Krishan
Primary Sources
- The accounts preserved at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib, Delhi
Secondary Sources
- Fenech and McLeod, Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (Rowman and Littlefield, 3rd ed. 2014)
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0511; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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