ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>CHAND&#362 SH&#256H</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="CHANDj,SHH"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279CHAND&#362 SH&#256H, a wealthy banker and revenue official at the Mu<u>gh</u>al court at Lahore. He earned the annoyance of Sikhs by uttering disparaging words when his family priest proposed Gur&#363 Arjan's son, Hargobind, for his daughter who was of marriageable age. Chand&#363 Sh&#257h accepted the suggestion but with reluctance and made the conceited remark that the Gur&#363's house was too low for his status and wealth. Report of what he had said reached the local <i>sa&#7749gat</i>, who felt injured and sent request to Gur&#363 Arjan to reject the proposal. The, Gur&#363, honouring Sikhs' wishes, broke off the match. Chand&#363 Sh&#257h became a deadly foe of the Gur&#363 and began to conspire against him. He got his chance when, after the death of the liberal-minded Akbar, his son, Jah&#257&#7749g&#299r, ascended the Mu<u>gh</u>al throne. Emperor Jah&#257&#7749g&#299r came to Lahore in April 1606 in pursuit of his rebel son, <u>Kh</u>usrau. Chand&#363 Sh&#257h and other detractors of Sikhism slandered the Gur&#363 before him. Gur&#363 Arjan was arrested on the charge that he had received and blessed the rebel prince. The Emperor sentenced him to death with torture. Murtaz&#257 <u>Kh</u>&#257n, the governor of Lahore, was to carry out the sentence, but, according to Sikh chronicles, it was Chand&#363 Sh&#257h who took charge of the holy prisoner and had him done to death with the cruellest torments.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As time passed, Jah&#257&#7749g&#299r became reconciled to Gur&#363 Arjan's successor, Gur&#363 Hargobind. He had Chand&#363 Sh&#257h seized and delivered into the Gur&#363's custody. Dragged through the streets of Lahore by angry Sikhs who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated by him, Chand&#363 Sh&#257h died a miserable death.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The final blow came ironically from the very person whom Chand&#363 Sh&#257h had employed to pour hot sand on Gur&#363 Arjan's blistered body.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>See</i> GURDITT&#256 BHA&#7788HI&#256R&#256</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"><i>Gurbil&#257s Chhev&#299&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299</i>, Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Bhall&#257, Sar&#363p D&#257s, <i>Mahim&#257 Prak&#257sh</i>. Patiala, 1971<BR> <li class="C1"> S&#257hib Si&#7749gh, <i>J&#299van-Brit&#257nt Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Arjan Dev J&#299</i>. Amritsar, 1979<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR> <li class="C1"> Ganda Singh, <i>Guru Arjan's Martyrdom Reinterpreted</i>. Patiala, 1969<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">T&#257ran Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>