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Guru Tegh Bahadur

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Profession
Religious Leader
Died
Nov 11, 1675
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
India
About
Remembered for his protection of Sikhs and Hindus against a seventeenth-century law that forced these Indian religious groups to convert to Islam, Bahadur was appointed his country's Guru of Sikhs in early 1664. As a result of his actions, he was sentenced to death by the Indian Emperor; his execution made him a martyr.
Family
Born Tyaga Mal Khatri in Amritsar, India, he was one of the six children of Guru Hargobind and Nanaki. His marriage to Mata Gujri resulted in a writer and warrior son named Guru Gobind Singh.

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