Tegh Bahadur, the youngest son of Hargobind, is found at Bakala and proclaimed the ninth Guru; a poet and traveler, he founds Anandpur in the Shivalik foothills and preaches across the Punjab and into Assam and Bengal before the crisis that ends his life.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- 1664 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Anandpur; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Tegh Bahadur
Primary Sources
- The Guru's hymns in the Guru Granth Sahib
Secondary Sources
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
- Fenech and McLeod, Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (Rowman and Littlefield, 3rd ed. 2014)
Provenance: HIST-0512; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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