Har Rai, the seventh Guru, keeps his grandfather's army but avoids battle, and is remembered for his care of the wounded of both sides in the Mughal succession war and for herbal medicine dispensed at Kiratpur; his reign holds the community together in a quieter key.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- 1644 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Kiratpur; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Har Rai
Primary Sources
- Mughal court notices of the Guru's aid to Dara Shikoh
Secondary Sources
- Fenech and McLeod, Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (Rowman and Littlefield, 3rd ed. 2014)
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
Provenance: HIST-0510; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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