The emperor Aurangzeb has Guru Tegh Bahadur executed at Delhi, after the Guru interceded, in the Sikh account, for Kashmiri Hindus resisting forced conversion; he is remembered as the shield of India, and his martyrdom for another faith's freedom stands at the center of Sikh memory.
Tagged: Persecution Sahajdhari Sikh The Khalsa Panth
The Event
- Date
- 1675 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Delhi; today Delhi, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari, The Khalsa Panth
- Key figures
- Guru Tegh Bahadur, Aurangzeb
Primary Sources
- The Sikh tradition's accounts of the Kashmiri Pandits' appeal
Secondary Sources
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
- McLeod, Sikhism (Penguin, 1997)
Provenance: HIST-0513; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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