The Truth Behind The Golden Temple Massacre

[Mehtab Singh 3,899]

As reports emerge that the UK may have colluded in a merciless 1984 raid on the Golden Temple in Amritsar, we look back at one of the most painful and important moments in Sikh history.

By Dabinderjit Singh

Code-named Operation Bluestar began on June 1st 1984. Up to 150,000 Indian army troops were sent to the northern Indian state of Punjab, the Sikh homeland, equipped with helicopter gunships and tanks.
Over 125 other Sikh shrines were simultaneously attacked. On the false pretext of apprehending 'a handful of militants' lodged inside the Golden Temple, the Indian army unleashed a terror unprecedented in post-independence India. It took the use of Vijayanta tanks to win the fight for the army. These let loose a barrage of highly explosive shells, which destroyed the Akal Takht, the temporal seat of the Sikhs.
The Shiromani (Temple) Committee secretary Bhan Singh was in the temple complex at the time of Operation Bluestar. He witnessed soldiers, commanded by a major, lining up young Sikhs along the hostel's corridor to be shot. When Bhan Singh protested, the major flew into a rage, tore away his turban and ordered him to either flee the scene or join the 'array of martyrs'. Bhan Singh turned back and fled, jumping over the bodies of the dead and injured. Hundreds of young Sikhs, innocent pilgrims from the villages, were killed in this manner.
Ranbir Kaur, a female school teacher, witnessed the shooting of another group of 150 people whose hands had been tied behind their backs with their own turbans.
A singer at the Golden Temple, Harcharan Singh Ragi, his wife and their young daughter came out of their quarters near the information office on the afternoon of June 6th. They witnessed the killings of hundreds of people, including women, and would themselves have been shot if a commander had not taken pity on their young daughter who fell at his feet begging him to spare her parents' lives.
Associated Press correspondent Brahma Chellaney had managed to dodge the authorities to remain in Amritsar during the Operation Bluestar. One attendant at the city's crematorium told him that there was not 'enough wood to burn the dead individually'.
News of the attack on the Golden Temple quickly spread despite the curfew. Thousands of people in the surrounding villages gathered to march to Amritsar to defend the Golden Temple. At Golwand village in Jhubal, a crowd of several thousands gathered, under the leadership of Baba Bidhi Chand, and began to march the 25 kilometres to Amritsar. Helicopter patrols spotted them and sprayed them with bullets without warning. Within minutes hundreds were dead or wounded.
"It was a virtual massacre. A large number of women, children and pilgrims were gunned down."
The Guardian, June 13th 1984
"For five days the Punjab has been cut off from the rest of the world. There is a 24-hour curfew. All telephone and telex lines are cut. No foreigners are permitted entry and on Tuesday, all Indian journalists were expelled. There are no newspapers, no trains, no buses - not even a bullock cart can move. Orders to shoot on site were widely carried out. The whole of Punjab, with its 5,000 villages and 50 major cities, was turned into a concentration camp. The rules were what the Indian army and its political decision makers decided."
Christian Science Monitor, June 8th 1984
"The army went into Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) not to eliminate a political figure or a political movement but to suppress the culture of a people, to attack their heart, to strike a blow at their spirit and self-confidence."
Joyce J.M. Pettigrew
"Thousands of people have disappeared from the Punjab since the siege of the Sikh's Golden Temple here seven weeks ago. In some villages men between 15-35 have been bound, blindfolded and taken away. Their fate is unknown"
Mary Anne Weaver's report in the Sunday Times
"A Sikh doctor drafted from the Government hospital to Jullunder to conduct post mortem examinations said that he had seen the bodies of two Sikhs who had been shot at point blank range, their hands tied behind their backs with their turbans. His colleagues had reported others, some of whom had been machine -gunned. This doctor headed a team that conducted 400 examinations. He said that most bodies were riddled with bullets and bore bomb wounds."
The Guardian
"The same doctor told journalists that bodies of victims were brought to the mortuary by police in municipal refuse lorries and reported that of the 400 bodies, 100 were women and between 15-20 were children under five. One was a two month old baby. The doctor said that one 'extremist' in the pile of bodies was found to be alive; a soldier shot and killed him."
The Times
"Another police official told reporters that a lorry load of elderly Sikhs who surrendered on the first day of the military operation, were brought to the main city police station and tortured there by the army. The old men shrieked, but I helplessly watched all this from my office window."
The Guardian
"On the night of the 5th, the aged and chronically ill father of the couple next door finally expired and on the morning of the 6th the army gave our neighbours special permission to take him to the crematorium. Even before reaching this site, they could smell the stench of putrid and burning flesh. On entering the crematorium grounds they saw a sight that literally made them sick with horror. Grotesque piles of dozens of bodies were being burnt in the open without dignity or religious rites like so many carcasses. The bodies had all been brought there by dust carts and from the number of carts; the attendant estimated some 3,300 had so far been cremated."
A resident of Amritsar's eyewitness account to the editor of a British Sikh publication
With dead bodies lying all around, the vast lake of the Golden Temple Complex was transformed into a thick red of profuse blood. No attempts were made to provide assistance to the injured or dying.
According to the Christian Science Monitor:
"On Saturday, medical workers in Amritsar said soldiers had threatened to shoot them if they gave food or water to Sikh pilgrims wounded in the attack and lying in the hospital."
People were killed like that. No medicine was provided, in fact no medical aid was administered at all. Many people died in the camps. Neither water nor medicine aid was provided and you could not even donate blood for the injured in hospitals as it was stated that they were prisoners of war and hence no blood transfusions were permitted. The army detained volunteers of the Red Cross who wanted to help the injured at the nearby Jallianwala Baqh.
G.K.C Reddy commented that "Operation Blue Star will go down in history as one of the biggest massacres of unarmed civilians by the organised military force of a nation." Further, he added that "the word unarmed is used deliberately as the disparity in arms on the two sides was so great that those resisting army invasion of the temple could hardly be termed armed".
Indian MP and president of the Janata party Subramaniam Swami published an article soon after the massacre inside the Golden Temple to say that the government had been master-minding a disinformation campaign to create legitimacy for the action. This did not go unnoticed by informed foreign correspondents. "The government is now energetically insisting that the Sikh insurrection in the Panjab was a deep-seated conspiracy of a certain foreign power or when pressed, claims that some of the terrorists were trained in Pakistan," he wrote. "This is the first time that such a claim has been made, and it smacks of Mrs Gandhi's playing the familiar old Pakistan card for all it is worth."
Citizens for Democracy, a respected Indian civil liberties group headed by the distinguished former supreme court judge V.M.Tarkunde, published a report called Oppression in Punjab (1985). According to its findings on the police and army atrocities, "it was a terrible tale of sadistic torture, ruthless killings, fake encounters, calculated ill-treatment of women and children, and corruption and graft on a large scale." It also noted that "despite all the oppression of the Sikh community there was no incident of a communal riot even in villages where the Hindus were in a hopeless minority".
In the November 16th edition of the New Statesman, Amrit Wilson described the scene:
"On June 4th, a day of pilgrimage for Sikhs when thousands had gathered at the Golden Temple, army tanks moved into the Temple Complex, smashing into the sanctum and shooting everyone in sight. Those left alive were then prevented from leaving the building, many wounded were left to bleed to death and when they begged for water, army Jawans told them to drink the mixture of blood and urine on the floor. Four months later no list of casualties or missing persons had yet been issued. Then came the army occupation of Punjab with frequent humiliations, arrests and killings of Sikhs by soldiers."
In an effort to destroy a crucial part of Sikh heritage, the army, set fire to the Sikh Reference Library after it had been secured. Irreplaceable copies of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs' holy scriptures; archives of documents from periods of Sikh history and even artefacts from the lives of the Gurus were reduced to ash. The Toshakhana, treasure house of the Golden Temple was systematically looted.
The government of India has always maintained that the army action was a 'last resort' necessary to flush out terrorists. But according to Retired Lt-General S.K. Sinha of the Indian army the army action was not the 'last resort' prime minister Indira Gandhi would have us believe. It had been in her mind for more than 18 months. Shortly after the Akali agitation of 1982, the army began rehearsals of a commando raid near Chakrata Cantonment in the Doon Valley, where a complete replica of the Golden Temple complex had been built. Another training involving Aviation Research Centre Commandos, was given in the Sarsawa area and Yamuna bed in helicopters converted into qunships." This was long before any "militants" were inside the complex.
A soldier serving in Arnitsar wrote:
"On the morning of June 6th, the Golden Temple complex was like a graveyard. Bodies lay all around in buildings, on the Parikarma and in the Sarovar. The sun was shining and the stench from the bodies was becoming unbearable. The civilians who died, about 1,500 of them, were piled in trollies and carried away. A lot of them were thrown into the rivers. The battle was a tragic one. I couldn't eat anything. Food made me sick. I used to just drink lots of rum and go to sleep. I am glad now to be relieved of my duty in Arnritsar."
R.H. Greenfield of the Sunday Telegraph, (June 10th, 1984) wrote:
"Mughal emperors and British governors alike tried military solutions to the Sikh problems and succeeded only in adding to the roll of martyrs cherished by the proud and prickly people. Sikhs also have long memories. They have never forgotten or forgiven the day in 1919 when General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire in the sacred city of Amritsar and Mrs. Gandhi may well have cause to rue the day she did the same."
Less than 5 months later, his words became reality.

Dabinderjit Singh is a leading figure in the British Sikh community. He became one of the youngest civilians to recive an OBE in 2000 for his work on equal opportunities and representing the Sikh community. He is an adviser to the Sikh Federation (UK) and a regular spokesman on mainstream media on Sikh issues.


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[cool water 142]

Dabinderjit Singh pretty much nails it in that one article. There are countless open source documents and books on the web to create a powerful case against the Indian state and all those who colluded in the genocide and massacres of the Sikh community.

Question is are Sikhs going to let the war criminals get away with what they did, or look back in history and see how Sikhs pursued their killers to the end until they were brought to justice. Remember how evil and cruel infamous afghan muslim invader abdali came along and blew up the golden temple in 17th century and tried to exterminate the Sikhs 8 times before the Sikhs rose up and gave his forces a crushing hit and run guerilla tactics defeat where he was bled dry and had to run back to Afghanistan to sort out his own pasthun uprising leaving Sikhs to be masters of their own homeland / holyland of punjab.

[UKLondonSikh 162]

Mehtab Singh Paji, the painful history of 1984 occurred and there's nothing we can do to turn back time.

However, 30 years on what we youth in the West can certainly do is set ourselves aims and objectives as members of the Sikh Panth to hit the following targets for Panthic upliftment by combatting drugs, alcohol, biraderi, infanticide, illiteracy, cancer and poverty.

UK Sangat to raise £30 million plus by June 2014

Canadian Sangat to C$30 million plus by June 2014

American Sangat to raise $30 million plus by June 2014

Other Diaspora Countries Sangat should target $10million plus by June 2014

India-based Sangat could arguably raise R300crores

And with an eventual target of national Panj Pyaaray representatives from each country handing over their respective nation Sangat's cheques to the SGPC for firewalled projects for Panthic Upliftment in combatting drugs, alcohol, infanticide, biraderi, illiteracy, cancer and poverty and every penny of the funds presented to SGPC in June 2014 being watched over by auditors to confirm that Badal Dal cannot access, use or waste a single penny of the funds raised by Sangat.

Rather than just remembering the past, we need to actively attack the current silent Genocide occuring via infanticide, drugs, cancer, illiteracy, biraderi and poverty.

I would like to hear every forum members idea's on how we make this happen. I will write to Sikh Council UK and I hope all Sangat can spread this agenda like a virus!

Mehtab Singh Ji can you pin this please Bhai Sahib?

[lsingh 748]

There is enough information here to convince the world that this was one of the worst massacres of all time. Have you noticed how the Indians have gone quite in last few days as their lies get exposed by the letters released.

[savinderpalsingh 699]

A letter showing the betrayal of the Sant by Longowal and Badal.....shocking, thanks to Hardeep Singh

[TheFancyBanana 747]

A letter showing the betrayal of the Sant by Longowal and Badal.....shocking, thanks to Hardeep Singh

How reliable is this letter? Where is it from?

[Big_Tera 1,117]

Well, It should not be a surprise that the UK or other countries where probably involved in 1984 Blue star Atrocity.

Its well known that during times of conflict on this scale, that other countries often give assistance. be it advice or weapons. During the 1980's period Britain was the leader in having specialized forces such as the SAS.

Hopefully the investigation may shed more light on what exactly happened. But it will not bring those who committed the ghastly crimes to justice.

[savinderpalsingh 699]

How reliable is this letter? Where is it from?

there are many threads regarding the thug longowal

http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/71774-sant-jee-got-betrayed-by-akali-dal-longowal-and-sgpc/

This letter along with others are disclosed in the appendix of Gurtej Singh's book, "Chakravyuh: Web of Indian Secularism". The letters show how the Akali/SGPC leaders like Longowal, Tohra and Badal etc, betrayed the Dharam Judh morcha

[BhagatBalmik 379]

Waheguru

Singh Ji and the whole Sangat please watch this

[GPS 1,309]

there are many threads regarding the thug longowal

http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/71774-sant-jee-got-betrayed-by-akali-dal-longowal-and-sgpc/

This letter along with others are disclosed in the appendix of Gurtej Singh's book, "Chakravyuh: Web of Indian Secularism". The letters show how the Akali/SGPC leaders like Longowal, Tohra and Badal etc, betrayed the Dharam Judh morcha

For God's sake do not believe anything that this Gurtej singh IAS writes.He is a big mole He writes as if he is sympathizer of

sikhs but he is not. He was supposed to be inside golden temple when invasion took place but he was hale and hearty.

Simranjit singh Mann asked him to clear his name as it is mentioned in book called "open secrets" By Intelligence

chief of the time MK Dhar.Instead of giving clarification he launched verbal attack on Mann.

He was main agent of Kala afghana going to USA frequently to lobby sikhs to slander panthic organizations like

Taksal and akhand kirtani jatha with a motive to divide sikhs and attack amrit sanchar of sikhs.

Now he is with Ragi darsho and floated Guru Granth da khalsa panth.Main aim is to attack khalsa rehat.

Sikhs should be smart enough to identify their enemies.That letter is floating around after 1984 and is fake.

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http://www.patshahi10.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=332:sri-akal-takhat-on-gurtej-singh-ex-ias-and-other-kala-afghana-associates&catid=36:hukamnamas&Itemid=74

Sri Akal Takhat on Gurtej Singh (ex IAS) and other Kala Afghana Associates

In 2003 the Panj Singh Sahibaans at Sri Akal Takhat Sahib warned Gurtej Singh (ex IAS) and other associates of Kala Afghana for violating the Hukamnama regarding Kala Afghana and participating in a seminar in his support. Sri Akal Takhat Sahib addressed Gurtej Singh as 'Panth Da Dokhi' and withdrew the title of 'Prof of Sikhism' from him for his anti-Panthic activities

[lsingh 748]

This happened after Gurtej Singh criticised Badals rule. But they seem happy to encourage Radodoamis and other cults that have taken a grip of the Punjab. Nothing said against the Police killers and the alliance with the BJP that supported the Sikh Genocide. Before you say they are political, Akal Takht and SGPC are controlled by the Badals who are in turn controlled by the Indian Govt.

[GPS 1,309]

This happened after Gurtej Singh criticised Badals rule. But they seem happy to encourage Radodoamis and other cults that have taken a grip of the Punjab. Nothing said against the Police killers and the alliance with the BJP that supported the Sikh Genocide. Before you say they are political, Akal Takht and SGPC are controlled by the Badals who are in turn controlled by the Indian Govt.

I do not know source of your news.It had nothing to do with Badal. kala afghana movement had nothing to do with akalis.

They were not even in power.

Kala afghana was a police tout planted in Golden temple to spy on Sant Bhindrewale.He was whisked away to Canada just before operation blue star and there a couple of anti sikh books written through him.

Gurteja was his front tout. MK Dhar who wrote book "Open secrets" was intelligence chief in Pun jab those days and he mentions Gurteja's name in the book. Check your sources before writing.

[GPS 1,309]

More Information on traitor Gurtej singh

http://www.panthic.org/articles/3830

HALL OF SHAME : THE HERETICS IN THE PANTH

January 24, 2008

Source: Bakshi Atamjot Singh

When Socrates was given a choice to either escape from the prison, or face execution by drinking the poison hemlock he preferred the latter. He believed in what he had preached. And he didn’t deter to lay his life for those principles. He didn’t want to be seen as a hypocrite among his followers. He died defending his principles.

Hypocrisy and compromising their own principles doesn’t seem to be a big problem for some Sikh preachers who, for unknown reasons, flip-flop on their own preaching and belief. Prof. Darshan Singh has become the latest person to defy his own belief on Gurbani. By doing so he has joined the ranks of Bhag Singh, Principal Harbhajan Singh, Harjinder Singh Dilgeer and Gurtej Singh who also backtracked from their earlier belief and faith on the bani of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib.

It is a fact that if a person wants to become a Sikh he will have to be baptized using the banis of Sri Guru Granth Sahib and Sri Dasam Granth Sahib. And It is also a fact that if a person wants to talk about the Khalsa principles, the concept of Saint-Soldier and the life of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib he will have to quote from the Dasam Bani as well. One cannot put the Sikh historyand belief into perspective without quoting from the sacred bani of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib.

From the changing stance of some of the above mentioned writers and pracharaks on the Dasam Bani one thing, though a bit puzzling, is becoming quite evident. Those who had grudges on the functioning of SGPC or the role of our Jathedars on handling different panthic issues, more often justified than being imaginary, aimed their guns towards the Dasam Bani as well. Whereas Sri Guru Granth Sahib contains references to the figures from Hindu mythology, Sri Dasam Granth Sahib contains explanatory references to these figures. No wonder this scripture can be and has been misused by those Sikhs who want to blackmail fellow Sikhs, and by those Hindu hardliners who want to disprove Sikh’s separate identity.

What Sri Akal Takhat Sahib is to Sri Harimandir Sahib: Sri Dasam Granth Sahib is to Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Whatever is not said, recited and placed inside Sri Harimandir Sahib, is done at Sri Akal Takhat Sahib. Both are complementary to each other and are the embodiment of the Saint-Soldier concept of the Khalsa.

It was the wisdom of Gurmukhs like Bhai Kahn Singh, Bhai Vir Singh, Master Tara Singh, Bhai Randhir Singh, Prof. Puran Singh, Giani Ditt Singh etc who could defend the Arya Samajist onslaughts against the bani of Guru Gobind Singh Ji with great vigor. What Kaal, Mahakaal, Kalika and other names mean in Guru Sahib’s bani has been extensively explained a century ago by these Gurmukhs(1). How the non-Sikhs particularly Hindus interpreted the meaning of these terms at that time, is now being interpreted by these rebellious Sikhs. A simple mathematical equation puts these Sikhs into the same shoes as those of the Hindu fundamentalists of that time.

Blindly ignoring the primary dates of the completion of the individual compositions mentioned in the Dasam Bani(2), and un-acknowledging the great effort of Bhai Mani Singh Ji in the compilation of Guru Sahib’s bani after his demise, recently Dr. Dilgeer was quoted saying that the Dasam Bani was compiled by the British, centuries after the death of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib. The same Dr. Dilgeer while serving as the Director of the Sikh Research Board considered Chandi Di // (Source of Ardas) and Chaupai Sahib (Source of Amrit Sanchar and Nitnem) as the writing of The Tenth Master(3). After he was unceremoniously removed from the post he aimed his guns towards his own beliefs. Now he travels around criticizing the SGPC along with the Dasam Bani.

Gurtej Singh (ex-IAS) was conferred the title of ‘Prof. of Sikhism’ by SGPC for his panthic services during the 1980s. Until recently he understood the importance of the Dasam Bani in instilling the warrior spirit in the Khalsa. However, under some unknown pressure, he too aimed his guns towards the Dasam Bani as a result the honor with which he was once bestowed was repealed by the panth.

Another classic case of the abandoning the faith on Dasam Bani is that of Principal Harbhajan Singh (Shaheed Sikh Missionary College). He has numerous articles and books written in the glory of the bani of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib. Interestingly he was the one who in his writings often addressed Sri Dasam Granth as Sri Dasam Guru Granth Sahib. Then came another book written by octogenarian Principal Harbhajan Singh which was a complete U-turn from his own earlier writings. In that book he not only rejected the Dasam Bani but also used derogatory language against it. Before he could be asked to explain his detraction from his earlier stance, he passed away.

But the latest and the most surprising member of ‘The Hall of Shame’ is Prof Darshan Singh Ragi. He had been a casualty of his own blasphemy. Darshan Singh, while in his heydays as a panthic ragi and during the peak years of Punjab’s political crisis used to perform keertan and katha from Dasam Bani instilling that warrior spirit among the youth for which the bani was written and composed. He has now started chopping his roots by questioning his own beliefs. Last year when the whole panth was celebrating the Prakash Utsav of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, Darshan Singh from a historic Gurdwara associated with Guru Teg Bahadur’s martyrdom ceased the opportunity to publicly declare his abdication from the panthic values and his own faith and spewed venom against the bani of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib. This is amusing because until quite recently Darshan Singh was performing keertan and katha from Dasam Bani, and was positively propagating its true meaning and advising sangat to read the banis in Sri Dasam Granth Sahib. His sudden U-turn from what he preached earlier has come as a big surprise. He was either wrong earlier or is wrong now. If he was correct earlier and is wrong now then he is a hypocrite and a charlatan. If he was wrong before, then he is untrustworthy.

Belief and faith is something intrinsic to the existence and welfare of a community. In a bound fabric of religious dogmas, individual views come secondary to the primary beliefs of the community. And every claimant of a religious community ought to honor that collective wisdom.

Sikh history is full of examples where people preferred to sacrifice their life in order to uphold the glory of their faith. Compromising the faith and turning around from ones beliefs is not only un-Sikh but is immoral and unethical too.

Those who propagate disbelief, skepticism and suspicion with the aim of creating confusions, are always pushed to the fringes. They remain disgraced and ostracized only to look back and ponder upon their wrong deeds.

(1) ਮਹਾਕਾਲ - {ਸੰਗ੍ਯਾ}। ਕਾਲ ਦਾ ਭੀ ਕਾਲ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ। ਯਮ ਸ਼ਿਵ ਆਦਿ ਜਗਤ ਦਾ ਅੰਤ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲੇ ਭੀ ਜਿਸ ਵਿੱਚ ਲੈ ਹੋ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਹਨ। ਵਾਹਗੁਰੂ। ਪਾਰਬ੍ਰਹਮ। "ਮਹਾਕਾਲ ਰਖਵਾਰ ਹਮਾਰੋ"। (ਕ੍ਰਿਸਨਾਵ)। (2) ਉਹ ਲੰਮਾ ਸਮਾਂ, ਜਿਸ ਦਾ ਅੰਤ ਅਸੀਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਾਣ ਸਕਦੇ। (3) ਸਮੇਂ ਨੂੰ ਹੀ ਕਰਤਾ ਹਰਤਾ ਮੰਨਣ ਵਾਲਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਮਤ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਅਨੰਤ ਰੂਪ ਕਾਲ। ….."ਗ੍ਯਾਨ ਹੂੰ ਕੇ ਗ੍ਯਾਤਾ ਮਹਾ ਬੁੱਧਿਤਾ ਕੇ ਦਾਤਾ ਦੇਵ, ਕਾਲ ਹੂੰ ਕੇ ਕਾਲ ਮਹਾਕਾਲ ਹੂੰ ਕੇ ਕਾਲ ਹੈਂ". (ਅਕਾਲ).
(Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha in ‘Mahan Kosh’)

(2) ਸੱਤ੍ਰਹ ਸੈ ਪੈਤਾਲ ਮਹਿ ਸਾਵਨ ਸੁਦਿ ਥਿਤਿ ਦੀਪ ॥ ਨਗਰ ਪਾਂਵਟਾ ਸੁਭ ਕਰਨ ਜਮਨਾ ਬਹੈ ਸਮੀਪ ॥2490॥
(This work has been completed) in the year 1745 of the Vikrami era in the Sudi aspect of the moon in the month of Sawan, (July 1688 A.D.) in the town of Paonta at the auspicious hour, on banks of the flowing Yamuna. (Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib in ‘Krishnavtar’)

ਸੰਬਤ ਸਤ੍ਰਹ ਸਹਸ ਭਣਿਜੈ ॥ ਅਰਧ ਸਹਸ ਫੁਨਿ ਤੀਨਿ ਕਹਿਜੈ ॥ ਭਾਦ੍ਰਵ ਸੁਦੀ ਅਸਟਮੀ ਰਵਿ ਵਾਰਾ ॥ ਤੀਰ ਸਤੁਦ੍ਰਵ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸੁਧਾਰਾ ॥405॥
The Granth was completed on Sunday, the 18th day of month of Bhadon, in 1753 Bikrami Sammat (August 24, 1696 A.D.) on the banks of river Satluj.
(Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib in ‘Charitropakhyan’)

ਸੰਮਤ ਸੱਤ੍ਰਹ ਸਹਸ ਪਚਾਵਨ॥ ਹਾੜ ਵਦੀ ਪ੍ਰਿਥਮੈ ਸੁਖ ਦਾਵਨ ॥ ਤ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ਕਰਿ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸੁਧਾਰਾ ॥ ਭੂਲ ਪਰੀ ਲਹੁ ਲੇਹੁ ਸੁਧਾਰਾ ॥860॥
This Granth (book) has been complete (and improved) in Vadi first in the month of Asaarh in the year 1755 Bikrami; if there has remained any error in it, then kindly correct it.
(Sri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib in ‘Ramavtaar’)

(3)"CHANDI DI VAAR - Ballad of Chandi, written by Guru Gobind Singh Sahib...the theme of this ballad is war between good and evil. The Sikh warriors used to listen to this Vaar during the days of battle. Chandi Di Vaar has been written in central Punjabi language. It is replete with powerful, brilliant and articulate similes."
Harjinder Singh Dilgeer (The Sikh Reference Book, 1997)

"CHAUPAI - Literally means a verse or composition of four lines in a specific meter. It is a composition of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib. The main theme of this hymn is to invoke the Almighty to seek his Grace and Blessings for protection in every sphere of life."
Harjinder Singh Dilgeer (The Sikh Reference Book, 1997)

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Above Gurtej singh IAS in 2003 came from India to conduct tour for heretic kala afghana around USA to promote him after

he was excommunicated from Panth.

http://www.panthic.org/articles/3876