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Mai Bhago also known as Mata Bhag Kaur was a Sikh warrior who led 40 Sikh soldiers against the Mughals in 1705.
She was a staunch Sikh by birth and upbringing.
Mai Bhago also known as Mata Bhag Kaur was a Sikh warrior who led 40 Sikh soldiers against the Mughals in 1705.
She was a staunch Sikh by birth and upbringing.
In the year 1705, after the battle of Anandpur Sahib, she was distressed to hear that some of the Sikhs of her village neighborhood, who had gone to Anandpur Sahib to fight for Guru Gobind Singh Ji, had deserted him under adverse conditions.
Finding these 40 men(now called the"challi mukta")who had deserted the 10th Guru, she persuaded them to find Guru.She convinced them to apologize for leaving Anandpur sahib while it had been under attack;further she asked them to seek Guru's permission to be reinstated as Sikhs.
She set off along with them and some other Sikhs to find the Guru, who had been pursued by Mughal forces since leaving Anandpur. They caught up with him in the area around Malva.
Mai Bhago and the men she was leading stopped near the dhab (pool) of Khidrana just as an imperial army was about to attack the Guru.
So despite the fact that they surely faced certain death, the forty (chali) men along with Mai Bhago, waded headlong into the Mughal forces of around 10,000 soldiers and inflicted so much damage that the Mughals were finally forced to give up
their attack and retreat as darkness fell in the nearby woods.
Mai Bhag Kaur, was a great Sikh woman, with her Kirpan fighting, she was the first woman in the history of Punjab, to fight in a battlefield.
Mai Bhag Kaur, was a great Sikh woman, with her Kirpan fighting, she was the first woman in the history of Punjab, to fight in a battlefield.
With the 40 Sikh men dying on the battlefield,their leader asked for forgiveness for deserting the Guru & thereby,Sri Guru Gobind Singh blessed the forty men as the forty liberated ones & that is still how the men are known today; the"Forty Liberated Ones",the Chali Mukte.
He took into his care Mata Bhago who had suffered injuries in the battle.After recovering she thereafter stayed on with Guru Gobind Singh serving as one of his bodyguards,in warrior attire.
There r many such inspiring stories of true Indian Freedom fighters who r just forgotten.
There r many such inspiring stories of true Indian Freedom fighters who r just forgotten.
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