Evidence1699

Guru Gobind Singh founds the Khalsa

Name: Guru Gobind Singh founds the Khalsa
Start: 1699
End: 1699
Location: Anandpur Sahib, Punjab

Anandpur Sahib, Punjab

Keshgarh Sahib Gurudwara at Anandpur Sahib. Hari Singh from Ilford, Essex, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

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.

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