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Guru Hargobind

Sikh Guru
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Guru Hargobind (born 1595, Wadali, India—died 1644, Kiratpur, near the Himalayas) was the sixth Sikh Guru (1606–44), who developed a strong Sikh army and gave the Sikh religion its military character, in accord with the instructions of his father, Guru Arjan, the first Sikh martyr, who had been executed on the order of the Mughal emperor Jahāngīr. Up to the time of Guru Hargobind, the Sikh religion had been passive. At his succession ceremony Hargobind...

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