ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>KALI&#256N CHAND B&#256B&#256 (1440-1522)</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="KALIN,CHAND,BB,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">&#65279KALI&#256N CHAND, B&#256B&#256 (1440-1522), variously mentioned by chroniclers as Mahit&#257 K&#257l&#363, K&#257l&#363 R&#257i, K&#257l&#363 Chand, Kali&#257n R&#257i and Kali&#257n Chand, was the father of Gur&#363 N&#257nak, founder of Sikh faith. He was the elder of the two sons of B&#257b&#257 Shiv R&#257m, a Bed&#299 Khatr&#299, and M&#257t&#257 Ban&#257ras&#299 of the village of Pa&#7789&#7789hevi&#7751&#7693 (no longer in existence). The village fell in what is now the Amritsar district of the Punjab. The family later shifted to Talva&#7751&#7693&#299 R&#257i Bhoi K&#299, now known as Nank&#257&#7751&#257 S&#257hib, in present-day Shei<u>kh</u>&#363pur&#257 district of Pakistan, where Shiv R&#257m became the village <i>pa&#7789v&#257r&#299</i> or keeper of revenue records, a post occupied by B&#257b&#257 Kali&#257n Chand after his father's death. B&#257b&#257 Kali&#257n Chand was married to Tript&#257, daughter of R&#257m&#257 of Ch&#257hal, a village near Lahore. A daughter, N&#257nak&#299, and a son, (Gur&#363) N&#257nak, were born to the couple --- the former in 1464 and the latter in 1469. B&#257b&#257 Kali&#257n Chand died in 1522 at Kart&#257rpur, founded by Gur&#363 N&#257nak on the right bank of the River R&#257v&#299.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Santokh Si&#7749gh Bh&#257&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. Amritsar, 1927-33<BR> <li class="C1"> V&#299r Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, ed., <i>Pur&#257tan Janam S&#257kh&#299</i>. Amritsar, 1971<BR> <li class="C1"> Kohl&#299, Surindar Si&#7749gh, ed., <i>Janams&#257kh&#299 Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#257</i>. Chandigarh, 1975<BR> <li class="C1"> McLeod, W.H., <i>Early Sikh Tradition</i>. Oxford, 1980<BR> <li class="C1"> Harbans Singh, <i>Guru Nanak and Origins of the Sikh Faith</i>. Bombay, 1969<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurnek Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>