Heera Singh Sandhu

Heera Singh Sandhu
Heera Singh Sandhu
Founder of the Nakai Misl
Reign	1748-1767
Successor	Nar Singh Nakai
Born	1706; Baherwal Kalan, Punjab, Sikh Confederacy
Died	1776; Pakpattan, Sikh Confederacy
Issue	Dal Singh Nakai
House	Nakai
Father	Chaudhry Sandhu

Sardar Heera Singh Sandhu (1706–1776) was the founder of Nakai Misl, one of the twelve Sikh Misls that later became the Sikh Empire under the leadership of Ranjit Singh. Heera Singh Sandhu was killed in battle near Pakpattan when he partook in a battle against a Chisti army of devotees of Baba Farid's shrine in 1776.^[1]

Life[edit]

Heera Singh Sandhu was born into Jat Sikh family in 1706 in the region of Punjab in what is now Pakistan. He took possession of the lands surrounding his native village, Baherwal Kalan and countryside of Kasur which was located in the Nakka country South of Majha Region. He took Amrit Sanchar (Sikh Baptism) in 1731. Nakka in Punjabi means border or some sort of a gateway and the Nakka country was located between the Ravi and Sutlej south of Lahore. He also took Chunian from the Afghans but died (became a Shaheed) in a battle against Sujan Chisti for Pakpattan. His companions brought his dead body to Baherwal where it was cremated. Heera Singh Sandhu's son, Dal Singh Sandhu, was a minor, so his nephew, Nar Singh Sandhu son of Heera Singh Sandhu's brother Natha Singh Sandhu, succeeded him as leader of the misl. Natha Singh is the father of Sardar Ran Singh Nakai and grandfather of Maharani Datar Kaur, wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and mother of Maharaja Kharak Singh.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

↑ Richard M. Eaton (1984). Metcalf, Barbara Daly (ed.). Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam. University of California Press. p. 350. ISBN 9780520046603. Retrieved 30 August 2017.

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[c-1] Richard M. Eaton (1984). Metcalf, Barbara Daly (ed.). Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam. University of California Press. p. 350. ISBN 9780520046603. Retrieved 30 August 2017.

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