I have been reading about and practising as a Sikh from a young age, I took initiation into the Khalsa in 1999. I began my journey back in 1995, when I met some inspirational Sikhs. Kamalroop Singh, I am a Sikh and a member of the Khalsa, and belong to the Nihang Singh order. His fathers name was Garja Singh and his mothers name was Harnam Kaur. Members of the respected Guru's presence, this is the martyrdom place where the Seventh Jathedar, the great great Martyr General Saint Hanuman Singh, the leader of the Akal Takht, was marytred. There is a Gurdwara and plaque at Sohana (Chandigarh): He was wounded, and many Singhs, at least 15, 000 were Shahid.
Akali Baba Hanuman Singh was the new leader, the British attacked his army in the Patiala all the way upto Chandigarh area. When Akali Phoola Singh was Shahid, the British and treacherous Sikhs knew it was their time to extract revenge on the Buddha Dal. Anyhow the British obviously had it in for the Nihang Singh Khalsa after that day. Of course they did as they were invited by Ranjit Singh. All of the men were killed apart from the General, who was told to go back to his leaders and tell them never to set foot into the Punjab. Akali Phoola Singh put siege to a whole regiment of the British Army. He outsmarted the English gentlemen who were very clever and cunning in their strategy.
Akali Phoola Singh became aware, and knew the British planned an attack. Nihang Singh oral tradition states that the East India company sent spies to Anandpur Sahib, in the guise of Priests, to collect information. At the time of Akali Baba Hanuman Singh Ji, the next leader of the Akal Takht Sahib and Khalsa Army (Dal Panth - Buddha/Tarana Dal), there was no large Gurughar as we see today.Īkali Phoola Singh had attacked Metcalfe previously, and others. The Gurudwara Dukh Niwaran Sahib is the site where Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji healed a sick person.