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{{Infobox person
|name=Bhai Tara Singh Wan
|image=
|alt=
|caption=Tara Singh Wan fighting Mughal cavalry.
|birth_name=Tara Singh
|birth_date=1687
|birth_place=[[Wan tara singh, Punjab|Wan]], [[tarn taran district]], [[Punjab region|Punjab]]
|death_date=30 March 1726
|death_place=[[Wan tara singh, Punjab|Wan]], [[tarn taran district]], [[Punjab region|Punjab]]
|nationality=
|other_names=Bhai Tara Singh
|known_for=[[Sikh]] [[martyr]]
|occupation=
}}

'''Bhai Tara Singh Wan''' was an eighteenth-century [[Sikh]] martyr. He was from the village of [[Wan, Punjab|Wan]], also known as ''Wan Tara Singh'' and ''Dall-Wan'' now in [[ Tarn taran district]] tehsil [[bhikhiwind]] of the [[Punjab, India|Eastern Punjab]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutsikhs.com/sikh-martyrs/sikh-martyrs-bhai-tara-singh-ji|title=Sikh Martyrs:Bhai Tara Singh Ji - Gateway to Sikhism|publisher=www.allaboutsikhs.com|access-date=13 January 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030211854/http://www.allaboutsikhs.com/sikh-martyrs/sikh-martyrs-bhai-tara-singh-ji|archive-date=30 October 2012}}</ref>

==Family background==
His father, ''S. Gurdas Singh'', had received the rites of the [[Khalsa]] in the time of [[Guru Gobind Singh|Guru Gobind Singh Sahib]], and had taken part in the [[Battle of Amritsar (1709)|Battle of Amritsar]] (6 April 1709), in which [[Bhai Mani Singh]] led the [[Sikh]]s and in which Har Sahai, a revenue official of [[Patti, Punjab|Patti]], was killed at his (Gurdas Singh's) hands. ''Baba Gurdas Singh'' took martyrdom in Bajwara ([[Hoshiarpur]]) when he went along with ''[[Banda Singh Bahadur|Baba Banda Singh]]'' to fight for [[Sirhind]]. Baba Gurdas Singh was married in next village of [[Rajoke, Punjab|Rajoke]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Prachin Panth Prakash|last=Bhangu|first=Ratan Singh|year=1841|publisher=Vazir Hind Publications |location=Amritsar}}</ref>

==Early life==
''Bhai Tara Singh'', the eldest of the five sons of ''Gurdas Singh'', was born around 1687. He took [[Amrit Sanskar|Amrit]] from [[Bhai Mani Singh]]. Receiving the rites of initiation, he grew up to be a devout [[Sikh]], skilled in the [[Gatka|martial arts]].

==Martyrdom==
As persistent persecution drove the Sikhs out of their homes to seek shelter in hills and forests, Tara Singh collected around him a band of desperadoes and lived defiantly at [[Wan, Punjab|Wan]], where he, according to Ratan Singh Bhangu's [[Pracheen Panth Prakash]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sikhnet.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=328|title=Prachin Panth Prakash by Ratan Singh Bhangu|publisher=www.sikhnet.com|access-date=13 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nihangsingh.org/blog/?p=835|title=The expansion of the Panth - Sri Gur Panth Prakash|publisher=www.nihangsingh.org|access-date=13 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsks.co.in/bvs_pracheen_panth_parkash.htm|title=Buy Pracheen Panth Prakash by Ratan Singh Bhangu|publisher=www.jsks.co.in|access-date=13 January 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110326164046/http://www.jsks.co.in/bvs_pracheen_panth_parkash.htm|archive-date=26 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sikhinstitute.org/gpp_v1.pdf|title=Panth Prakash in English - PDF Download|publisher=www.sikhinstitute.org|access-date=13 January 2012}}</ref> possessed ajag'Iror landgrant. In his vaar or enclosure made with thick piles of dried branches of thorny trees, he gave refuge to any [[Sikh]] who came to him to escape persecution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.searchsikhism.com/tara.html|title=Sikh Martyr - Bhai Tara Singh Wan|publisher=www.searchsikhism.com|access-date=13 January 2012}}</ref> The faujdar sent a contingent of 25 horse and 80 foot to [[Wan, Punjab|Wan]] but Tara Singh's colleague [[Sardar]] met them in the fields, fought back and routed the invaders with several dead, including their commander, nephew of the faujdar and got martyrdom himself. ''Ja'far Begh'' reported the matter to [[Zakariya Khan]], who sent a [[punitive expedition]] consisting of 2,000 horse, 5 elephants, 40 light guns and 4 cannononwheels under his deputy, Momin Khan. Tara Singh had barely 22 men with him at that time. They kept the Lahore force at bay through the night but were killed to a man in the handtohand fight on the following day 1726.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/main.html|title=The Great Sikh Warriors|publisher=www.sikh-history.com|access-date=13 January 2012}}</ref> Their heads were taken back to [[Lahore]] and thrown in blind well where ''Gurudwara Shaheed Singhania'' now stands in [[Landa Bazar]]. A [[Gurdwara|Gurudwara Sahib]] now marks the site where the dead bodies of ''Bhai Tara Singh'' and his 20 companions were cremated.

==References==
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