| Wazir Khan | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sculpture depicting Wazir Khan overseeing the execution of the younger sons of Shri Guru Gobind SinghJi | |||||
| Nawab of Sirhind | |||||
| Successor | Baj Singh (Khalsa Army, May 1710) | ||||
| Born | 1635 Mukatsar, Punjab, Mughal Empire | ||||
| Died | May 12, 1710 Chappar Chiri | ||||
| Issue | Tulghan Khan | ||||
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| Father | Zahir Haram Khan | ||||
| Mother | Amina Begum | ||||
| Occupation | Mughal governor | ||||
Wazir Khan (died 1710, real name Mirza Askari) was Governor of Sirhind, administering a territory of the Mughal Empire between the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers.[1][2][3][4]
Wazir Khan is noted for his conflicts with the Sikhs, and became infamous for ordering the execution of Guru Gobind Singh's young sons (Sahibzada Fateh Singh and Sahibzada Zorawar Singh) in 1704. He was the governor of Sirhind, when he arrested the two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh. Wazir Khan tried to force the young sons of the Guru to embrace Islam. He bricked them alive, when they refused to accept Islam.
Wazir Khan was defeated and beheaded by a Sikh named Fateh Singh, a warrior in the Sikh Khalsa led by Banda Singh Bahadur, during the Battle of Chappar Chiri in May 1710.[5]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Dr Harjinder Singh, 'Sikh History in 10 Volumes', Sikh University Press, Belgium, vol. 2, p. 31.
- ↑ Dr Harjinder Singh, 'Sikh History in 10 Volumes', Sikh University Press, Belgium, vol 1, pp 64, 259-60.
- ↑ Tony Jaques (2007). Dictionary of battles and sieges. Vol. 3. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 948. ISBN 9780313335396.
- ↑ History of Islam, p. 506, at Google Books
- ↑ William Irvine (1904). Later Mughals. Atlantic Publishers & Distri.