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SAHIBZADA JUJHAR SINGH (1691-1705)

Like his elder brother, Ajit Singh, Sahibzada Jujhar Singh initiated training in the fighting skills rather at a very tender age. In 1699, when he was just eight, he received the rites of Khalsa initiation. By the time it became necessary to leave Anandpur under the pressure of a besieging host in December 1705, Jujhar Singh, nearing the completion of his fifteenth year, was an experienced young warrior, strong and fearless. He was one of the bands that successfully waded through the flooded Sarsa rivulet on horseback and made good their way to Chamkaur by nightfall on 6 December 1705, with the adversary in hot pursuit. With little respite during the night, he participated in the next day's battle warding off assault after assault upon the garhi, the fortified house in which Guru Gobind Singh Ji had, along with his 40 Sikhs and two sons, taken shelter. As they ran out of ammunition and arrows, Sikhs inside split themselves into batches of five each who would go out one after the other to engage the besiegers in hand-to-hand combat. Jujhar Singh led the last sally towards the end of the day (7 December 1705), and laid down his life fighting near the place where he had earlier seen his elder brother Ajit Singh fall. Gurdwara Qatalgarh in Chamkaur Sahib now marks the site.