Baghel Singh
Karorsinghia leader who entered the Red Fort in 1783 and, by agreement with Shah Alam II, built gurdwaras at the Sikh sites of Delhi.
Baghel Singh was born around 1730 at Jhabal in the Majha and rose to lead the Karorsinghia misl, which held lands in the Doaba and across the Sutlej towards Karnal.
In the 1770s and 1780s, with the Mughal empire collapsing, the Sikh misls raided deep into the Doab between the Ganges and the Yamuna and up to Delhi itself. In March 1783 Baghel Singh, with Jassa Singh Ahluwalia and Jassa Singh Ramgarhia, entered Delhi with some thirty thousand horsemen, and the Sikhs camped at the place still called Tis Hazari, 'thirty thousand'. The Nishan Sahib flew over the Red Fort.
By agreement with the emperor Shah Alam II, Baghel Singh stayed in the city, collected a share of its octroi revenue, and located and built seven gurdwaras at the sites connected with the Gurus, among them Sis Ganj, Rakab Ganj, Bangla Sahib and Majnu ka Tilla. He died around 1802.
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Supreme commander of the Dal Khalsa, wounded many times at the Vadda Ghallughara. Struck coins at Lahore and was called Sultan-ul-Qaum, king of the nation.
Leader of the Ramgarhia misl, named after the Ram Rauni fort at Amritsar he rebuilt. Raided as far as Delhi in 1783.