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(in Mahima Parkash) writes that Kahan Singh Trehan (a descendant of
Guru Amar Das) too was one of the Sikh prisoners. According to Sarup
Das, Kahan Singh was swapped with another Sikh so that he (Kahan
Singh), being the descendant of a Guru, might be saved from execution.
This is just another concoction. First, it was impossible for a Sikh to
reach there and get another one released. Secondly, it is un-Sikh like act
to get a Sikh killed in order to save another. This is unhistorical too. Even
Guru Gobind Singh did not try to save his sons in the battle of Chamkaur.
He sent his sons to fight and die (on the 7th of December 1705); instead
of his sons, he saved some Sikhs who escaped from the Fortress of
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Chamkaur along with him on the night of 7 and 8 of December 1705.
More than seven hundred Sikh prisoners were executed by the 12 th
of March 1716. Their dead bodies were cut into pieces and these pieces
were hung upside down from trees in different parts of the city of
Shahjahanabad (Delhi). The flesh from these body parts was eaten by
the vultures, but the skeletons and bones remained hanging. Wanton
Muslim children used to hit these bones with bricks and stones in order
to express their anger against the Sikhs. 34
After the execution of these more than seven hundred Sikhs,
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Farukhsiyar handed over Banda Singh and other 18 Sikhs to Tikka Ram,
to imprison them in Tripolia Fort. Banda Singh’s wife Sushil Kaur (of
Chamba) and his son Ajay Singh were sent into the custody of Darbar
Khan Nazir.
Khafi Khan claims that some rich people offered a big amount of
money to Mohammed Amin Khan to release Banda Singh but he refused
to have even a dialogue on this issue. This too seems to be another
concoction because at that time none could have dared to present
oneself as an agent or even as a sympathizer of the Sikhs.
Banda Singh and his companions were tortured for the next three
months; they too were offered life if they accepted to embrace Islam
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but none of them chose to do so. Finally, on the 9 of June, Farukhsiyar
ordered the execution of Banda Singh and his companions. The Emperor
ordered Ibrahim-Ud-Din (Mir Aatish) and Sarbrah Khan (Kotwal) that
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Banda Singh should be first tortured and then killed. The order included