Wazir Khan
Mughal governor of Sirhind who besieged Anandpur, pursued Guru Gobind Singh and ordered the execution of his younger sons. Killed by Banda Singh's army at Chappar Chiri.
Wazir Khan was the Mughal faujdar, military governor, of Sirhind under Aurangzeb, a powerful and ruthless official.
He led the Mughal forces at the sieges of Anandpur and pursued Guru Gobind Singh to Chamkaur in December 1704. When the Guru's two youngest sons, aged nine and six, were brought before him, he had them executed for refusing to convert, despite the protest of the Nawab of Malerkotla. He is also held to have sent the assassins who mortally wounded the Guru at Nanded in 1708.
Banda Singh Bahadur marched on Sirhind to avenge the Sahibzade. At the battle of Chappar Chiri on 12 May 1710, Wazir Khan was killed, by tradition by Baj Singh or Fateh Singh, and the Sikhs took and sacked Sirhind.
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The Guru's younger sons, aged about nine and six, executed at Sirhind for refusing to convert. Their week of martyrdom is the Shaheedi Jor Mela.
Ascetic turned general. Sent north by Guru Gobind Singh in 1708, he took Sirhind, set up the first Sikh state, gave land to those who tilled it and was executed in Delhi in 1716.
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A city of great antiquity-Lahore from the Wazir Khan mosque, India1907-01-01 · indiaLibrary of Congress ↗
Wazir Khan Hammam, Inner City LahoreWikimedia Commons · Tahir mq · CC BY-SA ↗
Wazir Khan and Bahadur Khanca. 1590-95 · Mughal Empire© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗
A painting by William Carpenter of Wazir Khan Mosque, cV&A, London · photo William Carpenter (Wikimedia Commons) ↗
Photograph of a man overlooking the city of Lahore from the rooftop of the Wazir Khan…Wikimedia Commons ↗