Question
How did Sikhs become a political power?
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Answer
- The organisation of the Sikhs into a political community during the seventeenth century helped in regional state-building in the Punjab.
- Several battles were fought by Guru Gobind Singh against the Rajput and Mughal rulers, both before and after set up of the Khalsa in 1699.
- After his death in 1708, the Khalsa rose in revolt against the Mughal authority uhder Banda Bahadur’s leadership.
- The Khalsa declared their sovereign rule by striking coins in the name of Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh.
- They established their own administration between the Sutlej and the Jamuna.
- Under a number of able leaders in the eighteenth century, the Sikhs organized themselves into a number of bands called jathas, and later on misls.
- Their combined forces were known as the grand army (dal khalsa).
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