Shaheedan Misl: Difference between revisions

The '''Shaheedan''' [[Misl]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Bhagata|first=Siṅgha|title=A History of the Sikh Misals|publisher=Publication Bureau, Punjabi University|year=1993|page= 241|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BihuAAAAMAAJ&q=sandhu+jat|quote=Deep Singh Shahid, a Sandhu Jat and resident of the village of Pohuwind of the ''pargana'' of Amritsar, was the founder of this Misal.}}</ref> was one of twelve [[Misl|Sikh Misls]] that later became the [[Sikh Empire]]. It held a small amount of territory in the [[Malwa (Punjab)]] area around the [[Takht Sri Damdama Sahib|Damdama Sahib]]<ref name="McLeod 2005 186">{{cite book |title=Historical dictionary of Sikhism |last=McLeod |first=W.H. |author-link=W.H. McLeod |year=2005 |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-5088-0 |page=186 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ma3G-hjh6SwC&dq=shaheed+misl&pg=PA186 }}</ref> before being incorporated into the [[Sikh Empire]] of the [[Sukerchakia Misl]] by [[Ranjit Singh]].

In 1748, [[Baba Deep Singh]] was appointed the leader of the Shaheedan Misl and the [[Mahant]] of the [[Takht Sri Damdama Sahib]]. In 1757, [[Ahmad Shah Abdali]] invaded India{{cn|date=August 2021}} and sent an army to the [[Harmindar Sahib]] to block [[Sikhs]] from entering the [[Gurdwara]]. Baba Deep Singh and a company of men who rode with him to free the gurdwara were killed in the [[Battle of Amritsar (1757)]]<ref name="sarsa">{{cite book|url=http://m.friendfeed-media.com/6e9ec7f58014456d2d5fd015cc8af9d2974509c0|title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges|page=400|author=Jacques, Tony|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-33536-5|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626120848/http://m.friendfeed-media.com/6e9ec7f58014456d2d5fd015cc8af9d2974509c0|archive-date=26 June 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref> against the [[Durrani Empire|Durrani Army]]. His successor, Suddha Singh, later led the misl into a skirmish against the [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] government of Jalandhar City The first two leaders of the misl were considered [[Shahid|Shaheeds]], or  martyrs, by their contemporaries so the misl became known as, Shaheedan, or the followers of the martyrs.<ref>{{cite book |title=Calcutta review, Volume 77 |year=1883 |publisher=University of Calcutta, University of Calcutta. Dept. of English |location=Calcutta |page=159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=naUbAQAAIAAJ&dq=shahid+sikh&pg=PA159 }}</ref> The misl was annexed by the [[Sikh Empire]] at some point in the early 19th century and became a part of the Sikh Empire. The [[Nihang]] order of Sikhs maintains the traditions of this [[misl]].<ref name="McLeod 2005 186"/>