| January 13:
| The Battle of Chellianwala (in Gujrat district,
now in Pakistan) was fought (1849 A.D.) between the Khalsa Army
of the Lahore Darbar and the forces of East India Company. The
Sikhs gained upper hand in the battle but they lost finally in
the battle of Gujrat, which led to the annexation of the Sikh
kingdom by the British in 1849 A.D. |
| January 14: |
(a) Battle of Mukatsar was fought between the
Guru Gobind Singh' s forces and those of the Wazir khan, Subedar
Sirhind. The brunt of the attack was borne by forty men of the
Majha who had deserted the Guru's ranks during the siege of Anandpur,
but taunted by their own women who would not allow them enter
their houses, they had come back to reinforce the Guru's small
army. They all fell fighting but not before they had shown their
mettle as the toughest fighters. When the Guru, at the close of
the battle, came to know of the sacrifices of the Sikhs of Majha,
he was deeply moved. He took out the paper on which they had written
their disclaimer (Bedava and tore it up as a sign of forgiveness.
The Guru gave each of them the prestigious honorific of Mukta
- Emancipated one. They are remembered in the daily prayer of
the Sikhs as forty Muktas. (A.D. 1704) |
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(b) Acute wrath among the Sikhs at the dismantling
of the wall of historic Gurdwara Rakab Ganj by the British Government
(A.D. 1914). |
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(c) The Sikhs conquered Sirhind in 1764 where
two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh Ji had been bricked up alive.
To give expression to their moral rage at the destruction and
desecration of Sri Harimandar Sahib by Ahmed Shah Abdali and also
to establish Khalsa rule, they wrought havoc on Sirhind |
| January 16: |
Birthday of Sri Guru Har Rai Ji (A.D. 1630).
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| January 17: |
(a) Jahan Khan, Ahmed Shah Abdali's Commander
of the Afghan forces, attacked Amritsar in 1766. Dal Khalsa, under
the command of Sardar Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, Hira Singh, Lehna
Singh and Gajjan Singh routed the Afghans at the place now known
as Putligarh then situated on the outskirts of Amritsar.
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(b) Through a notification of A.D. 1927, the
government of Punjab accepted the name 'Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak
Committee' to be given to the Central Board of Management, which
had been constituted as per Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925. |
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(c) Shiromani Akali Dal came Out with flying
'colours in its Morcha on this date in 1977 against the emergency
clamped by Shrimati Indira Gandhi in A.D. 1975. |
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(d) Fifty Namdhari Sikhs were blasted by guns
on the charge of fomenting sedition against the British government
on the order of Cowan, the deputy commissioner of Ludhiana (A.D.
1872). |
