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Prime Minister of India who ordered Operation Blue Star in June 1984 and was assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards on 31 October.

Mughal emperor under whom Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed. Guru Gobind Singh's Persian letter, the Zafarnama, was addressed to him. He built Lahore's Badshahi Mosque.

Ninth Guru, 'Hind di Chadar', the shield of India. Founded Anandpur and was beheaded in Delhi in 1675 for defending the right of Kashmiri Pandits to keep their faith.

Ruler of Persia who invaded India in 1739, sacked Delhi and carried off the Peacock Throne and the Koh-i-Noor. Sikh bands raided his baggage train on the way home.

Actor who began in the Punjabi films of Lahore and became Hindi cinema's most famous villain.

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.

Eighth Guru, Guru at five. Nursed victims of a smallpox and cholera epidemic in Delhi and died of smallpox aged seven.

Three companions of Guru Tegh Bahadur executed before him in Delhi: Mati Das sawn in half, Sati Das wrapped in cotton and burned, Dayala boiled alive.

Wife of Guru Tegh Bahadur and mother of Guru Gobind Singh. Held with her younger grandsons in the cold tower of Sirhind, she died there on hearing of their execution.

A Ranghreta Sikh who carried Guru Tegh Bahadur's severed head from Delhi to Anandpur. The young Guru Gobind Singh embraced him as 'the Guru's own son'.

Wife of Guru Gobind Singh, honoured as the Mother of the Khalsa. She added sugar puffs (patase) to the first amrit.

Wealthy trader who smuggled Guru Tegh Bahadur's body away in his cart and burned his own house to cremate it. Gurdwara Rakab Ganj stands there.

Karorsinghia leader who entered the Red Fort in 1783 and, by agreement with Shah Alam II, built gurdwaras at the Sikh sites of Delhi.

Punjabi writer born in Lahore, whose autobiography Khanabadosh tells of a woman's life after Partition.

Wife of Guru Gobind Singh and mother of Ajit Singh, who led the Sikhs from Delhi for four decades after 1708 through letters of instruction.

The administrator who ran the annexed Punjab, sent Punjabi troops to retake Delhi in 1857, and later became Viceroy of India.

The last Viceroy of India, who brought independence forward to 15 August 1947 and kept the Punjab boundary secret until two days after it.