ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>T&#256R&#256 SI&#7748GH BH&#256&#298</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="TR,SIDGH,BH*"> <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">&#65279T&#256R&#256 SI&#7748GH, BH&#256&#298, the eighteenth century Sikh martyr, was a Bu&#7789&#7789ar Ja&#7789&#7789 of the village V&#257&#7749, popularly known as &#7692all-V&#257&#7749 because of its proximity to another village called &#7692all, in present-day Amritsar district of the Punjab. His father, Gurd&#257s Si&#7749gh, had received the rites of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 in the time of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh, and had taken part in the battle of Amritsar (6 April 1709), in which Bh&#257&#299 Man&#299 Si&#7749gh led the Sikhs and in which Har Sah&#257&#299, a revenue official of Pa&#7789&#7789&#299, was killed at his (Gurd&#257s Si&#7749gh's) hands. T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, the eldest of the five sons of Gurd&#257s Si&#7749gh was born around 1702. Receiving the rites of initiation from Bh&#257&#299 Man&#299 Si&#7749gh he grew up to be a devout Sikh, skilled in the martial arts. As persistent persecution drove the Sikhs out of their homes to seek shelter in hills and forests, T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh collected around him a band of desperadoes and lived defiantly at V&#257&#7749, where he, according to Ratan Si&#7749gh Bha&#7749g&#363, <i>Pr&#257ch&#299n Panth Prak&#257sh</i>, possessed a <i>j&#257g&#299r</i> or land-grant. In his <i>v&#257&#7771&#257</i> or enclosure made with thick piles of dried branches of thorny trees, he gave refuge to any Sikh who came to him to escape persecution. A government informer, S&#257hib R&#257i of Naushahr&#257 Pann&#363&#257&#7749, complained to the <i>faujd&#257r</i> of Pa&#7789&#7789&#299, J&#257'far Beg, that T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh harboured criminals. The <i>faujd&#257r</i> sent a contingent of 25 horse and 80 foot to V&#257&#7749, but T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh fought back and routed the invaders with several dead, including their commander, a nephew of the <i>faujd&#257r</i>. J&#257'far Beg reported the matter to Zakar&#299y&#257 <u>Kh</u>&#257n, who sent a punitive expedition consisting of 2,000 horse, five elephants, 40 light guns and four cannon-on-wheels under his deputy, Momin <u>Kh</u>&#257n. T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh had barely 22 men with him at that time. They kept the Lahore force at bay through the night, but were killed to a man in the hand-to-hand fight on the following day. This happened on 24 December 1732. A Gurdw&#257r&#257 now marks the site where T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh and his companions were cremated.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Panth Prak&#257sh</i>. Lahore,1880<BR> <li class="C1"> Bha&#7749g&#363, Ratan Si&#7749gh, <i>Pr&#257ch&#299n Panth Prak&#257sh</i>. Amritsar, 1914<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Bhagat Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>