ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>MUKARRAMPUR</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="MUKARRAMPUR"> <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">&#65279MUKARRAMPUR, locally called Mak&#257ro&#7749pur, is 14 km from Sirhind (30º-37'N, 76º-23'E). The village has five different historical shrines.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 P&#256TSH&#256H&#298 CHHEV&#298&#7748, NAUM&#298 ATE D&#256SVI&#7748 is the principal Sikh shrine of Mukarrampur. The site is sacred to three of the Gur&#363s. According to local tradition Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur was here on the full-moon day of H&#257&#7771 1732 Bk which corresponds to 28 June 1675. Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh is also believed to have stayed here for two days when, as a child, he was being escorted from Pa&#7789n&#257 to Anandpur. Gur&#363 Hargobind, too, is said to have visited the village in the course of a journey through this part of the countryside.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The present building was constructed during the 1940's. Standing on a high plinth, it comprises a square hall, with a domed sanctum in the centre and a verandah around it. The Gurdw&#257r&#257 is managed by the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee through a local committee which looks after other shrines in the village as well. Special <i>d&#299v&#257ns</i> take place on every full-moon day. The major festival of the year is held on the full-moon day in the month of H&#257&#7771.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>GURDW&#256R&#256 S&#256HIB P&#256TSH&#256H&#298 9</i> is situated inside the village. It is said that, while Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur was staying under a <i>ber</i> tree outside the village, a couple, M&#257&#299 M&#257&#7771&#299 and her husband R&#363p Chand, supplicated him to visit their humble dwelling. The Gur&#363 granted their wish. This Gurdw&#257r&#257 marks the site of the couple's house. The present building, constructed in 1975, has a domed square sanctum, within a rectangular hall.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>GURDW&#256R&#256 PAHIL&#298 P&#256TSH&#256H&#298</i>, a mound called &#298sarkhel Theh, about one kilometre from the village, marks the site where Gur&#363 N&#257nak is said to have once stayed. The present building constructed in the early 1970's, within a walled compound, has a square hall, with the sanctum in the middle of it.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>BU&#7748G&#256 S&#256HIB</i> and <i>SHAH&#298D GAÑJ</i>. Both these shrines, inside the village, are connected with Band&#257 Si&#7749gh Bah&#257dur's attack on Sirhind in 1710. The main battle was fought at Chappar Chi&#7771&#299, near present-day Cha&#7751&#7693iga&#7771h, but, as the Sikhs pressed on towards Sirhind, the retreating imperial troops put up some resistance at Mukarampur. The Mu<u>gh</u>al force was defeated, but several Sikhs fell in the action. A memorial was raised in their honour inside the village. This has since been replaced by the present Shah&#299d Gañj, a small domed square room in which the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib is seated.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Bu&#7749g&#257 S&#257hib, on the outskirts of the village, is of recent construction and is dedicated to B&#257b&#257 Band&#257 Si&#7749gh Bah&#257dur. It consists of a single domed square room, in which the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib is seated on a low platform.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Narotam, T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, <i> Sr&#299 Gur&#363 T&#299rath Sa&#7749grahi </i>. Kankhal, 1975<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Major Gurmukh Si&#7749gh (Retd.)<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>