ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>DH&#298R MALL (1627-1677)</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="DH*R,MALL,Person,Person"> <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">&#65279DH&#298R MALL (1627-1677), the elder son of B&#257b&#257 Gurditt&#257 and a grandson of Gur&#363 Hargobind, was born at Kart&#257rpur, now in Jalandhar district of the Punjab, on 10 January 1627. From his early years, he was prone to stubbornness which trait became stronger as he grew up. He stayed behind in Kart&#257rpur when Gur&#363 Hargobind moved along with the family to K&#299ratpur. At the death, in 1638, of his father, B&#257b&#257 Gurditt&#257, he did not go to K&#299ratpur to attend the obsequies, nor did he part with the original volume of the <i>&#256di Granth</i> which had been left at Kart&#257rpur at the time of Gur&#363 Hargobind's migration to K&#299ratpur and which had to be recited as part of the rites. When Gur&#363 Hargobind named Har R&#257i, his (Dh&#299r Mall's) younger brother, as his successor in the spiritual line, he set himself as Gur&#363 at Kart&#257rpur and appointed his own <i>masands</i>, or ministers, to collect tithes. He made friends with R&#257m R&#257i who had been anathematized by his father, Gur&#363 Har R&#257i, for garbling a line from the Holy Writ, and together they took complaints to the Mu<u>gh</u>al emperor, Aura&#7749gz&#299b, challenging especially the installation of Gur&#363 Har Krishan as successor to Gur&#363 Har R&#257i. Gur&#363 Har Krishan's sudden illness and death at Delhi in March 1664 gave Dh&#299r Mall another chance to stake his claim to the <i>gurgadd&#299</i>, i. e. the spiritual seat of the Gur&#363s. He installed himself at Bak&#257l&#257 as successor to Gur&#363 Har Krishan and, when Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur was formally anointed Gur&#363, he turned an nemy. He conspired with one of his <i>masands</i>, Sh&#299h&#257&#7749, who one day fired at Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur, but missed the target. His men attacked the Gur&#363's house and ransacked it unchecked. Makkhan Sh&#257h, one of Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur's followers, retaliated by pillaging Dh&#299r Mall but the Gur&#363 had everything returned to him, including the old volume of the Holy Book and what had been plundered from his own home.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dh&#299r Mall remained unrepentant and continued to attract followers who formed a sect of their own. A few months after the martyrdom of Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur, Dh&#299r Mall was also summoned to Delhi by Emperor Aura&#7749gz&#299b and was imprisoned in the Fort at Ra&#7751thambhor, where he died on 16 November 1677. His descendants, the So&#7693h&#299s of Kart&#257rpur, are still in possession of the original copy of the &#256di Granth prepared under the direction of Gur&#363 Arjan. The shrine at Kart&#257rpur dedicated to the founder of the sect is known as &#7692er&#257 Dh&#299r Mall.</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"> Chhibbar, Kesar Si&#7749gh, <i>Ba&#7749s&#257val&#299n&#257m&#257 Das&#257&#7749 Patsh&#257h&#299&#257&#7749 K&#257</i>. Chandigarh, 1972<BR> <li class="C1"> Santokh Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. Amritsar, 1926-37<BR> <li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Panth Prak&#257sh</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR> <li class="C1"> Trilochan Singh, <i>Guru Tegh Bahadur</i>. Delhi, 1967<BR> <li class="C1"> Harbans Singh, <i>Guru Tegh Bahadur</i>. Delhi, 1982<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Madanjit Kaur<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>