![]() ![]() Banda had chains round his ankles and his wrists, and was then locked in an iron cage. About two hundred were captured alive and handcuffed in twos. When Banda ordered the gate be opened, the Mughals rushed in to spear or stab as many as three hundred of the half-dead and helpless defenders. Then on December 17, 1715, Abdus Samad Khan, one of the Mughal commanders, shouted across the separating moat, that he would not allow any killing by his men, if Banda opened the gate to the fortress. They were trying to exist on boiled leaves and the bark of trees, and were gradually reduced to mere skeletons. Towards the end of November 1715, the remaining defenders were running out of ammunition and food. However, after a number of years he was caught in a seize and executed. His state lasted just under a year before its collapse. For this he fought relentlessly with the Mughals. In 1713, Banda Bahadur wanted to establish a Sikh State in the Punjab. Baba Banda Singh Bahadur (pronounce like this: Banda- " Bun-tha", Bahadur- " Bah-Ha-'th'ur"
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