# Guru Gobind Singh founds the Khalsa
**गुरु गोबिंद सिंह ने ख़ालसा की स्थापना की**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/khalsa-1699/
- Chapter: [The Mughals and their rivals](https://indianepics.online/chapter/mughal.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1699 CE
- Where: Anandpur Sahib, Punjab (31.24, 76.5)
- Tags: religion, political

## Summary

At Vaisakhi the tenth Guru initiates the Panj Piare and gives the Sikh community its martial, egalitarian form.

वैसाखी पर दसवें गुरु ने पंज प्यारों को अमृत छकाया और सिख पंथ को ख़ालसा रूप दिया।

## Account

The Khalsa was founded amid war with the hill rajas and Mughal commanders. Sikh tradition gives the day as Vaisakhi 1699 and the place as Anandpur, where Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib now stands; the detailed accounts of the ceremony come from Sikh writers of the following decades rather than from eyewitness records.

Within a century the Khalsa held the Punjab against the Afghans, and in 1799 Ranjit Singh took Lahore.

## Sources

- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (1990)

## Image

Keshgarh Sahib Gurudwara at Anandpur Sahib. Hari Singh from Ilford, Essex, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AKeshgarh_Sahib_Gurudwara_at_Anandpur_Sahib.jpg

---
Content licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source repository: https://github.com/SkidGod4444/indianepics