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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Kalu Mehta<br />
| birth_name = Kalyan Das<br />
| birth_date = 4 May 1440<br />
| birth_place = Dehra Sahib Lohar, Tarn Taran, Punjab <br />
| death_date = 24 December 1522<br />
| death_place = [[Kartarpur Sahib]], [[Lodi Empire]] (Present day [[Pakistan]])<br />
| spouse = [[Mata Tripta]]<br />
| children = [[Guru Nanak]], [[Bebe Nanaki]]<br />
| parents = <br />
| mother = Mata Sabhrai ji<br />
| father = [[Baba Shiv Ram]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Kalu Mehta''', formally Kalyan Das,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sgpc.net/gurus/gurunanak.asp |title=Guru Nanak Sahib, Guru Nanak Ji, First Sikh Guru, First Guru Of Sikhs, Sahib Shri Guru Nanak Ji, India |publisher=Sgpc.net |accessdate=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218023855/http://www.sgpc.net/gurus/gurunanak.asp |archivedate=18 February 2012 }}</ref> (1440–1520) was the father of [[Guru Nanak Dev|Guru Nanak]], the founder of Sikhism. <br />
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From the clan of the [[khatri]] caste, he served as the ''[[patwari]]'' (accountant) of crop revenue for the village of [[Nankana Sahib|Talwandi]]<ref name="Macauliffe-lxx">{{cite book |last1=Macauliffe |first1=Max Arthur |title=The Sikh Religion, its gurus, sacred writings and authors |date=1909 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |page=lxx |chapter=Introduction, Chapter VI |quote=Guru Nanak's father was Kalu of the Bedi section of the Khatri caste. He was by profession a village accountant, but added the practice of agriculture to this avocation. Kalu's father was Shiv Ram and his mother Banarasi. Kalu had one brother called Lalu, of whom little is known besides his name.}} [[s:Page:The Sikh Religion, its gurus, sacred writings and authors Vol 1.djvu/76|page view]], [[s:The Sikh Religion/Volume 1/Introduction#lxx|reading view]]</ref> in the employment of the landlord, [[Rai Bular Bhatti]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nankana.com/AboutRaiBular1.html |title=The Bhatti's of Guru Nanak's Order |publisher=Nankana.com |accessdate=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616151332/http://nankana.com/AboutRaiBular1.html |archivedate=16 June 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
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