The Mughal emperor Jahangir has Guru Arjan arrested and put to death at Lahore, on charges the Sikh tradition reads as persecution of a growing rival center; Arjan becomes the first martyred Guru, and his death turns the community toward arms under his son.
Tagged: Persecution Sahajdhari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- 1606 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Lahore; today Punjab, Pakistan
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Arjan, Jahangir
Connections
- Guru Arjan; followed
Primary Sources
- Jahangir's memoirs (Tuzuk-i Jahangiri)
Secondary Sources
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
Provenance: HIST-0508; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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