Chapter: 10 Banda Singh Bahadur
1) When was Banda Singh
Bahadur born?
1670 AD
2) Where was Banda
Singh Bahadur born?
Village Rajauri, District Punchh,
Kashmir
3) What was the name of
Banda Singh Bahadur's father?
Ram Dev
4) What was the
childhood name of Banda Singh Bahadur?
Lachhman Dev
5) To which caste did
Banda Singh Bahadur belong?
Dogra Rajput
6) At what age did
Banda Singh Bahadur stop hunting?
15 Year
7) Under whose
influence did Banda Singh Bahadur become Bairagi?
Janaki Prasad
8) What name did Janki
Prasad give to Banda Singh Bahadur after converting him to Bairag?
Madho Das
9) From whom did Madho
Das learn Tantra Vidya?
Aughar Nath
10) Where did Madho Das
meet Guru Gobind Singh?
Nander
11) Who gave this name
to Banda Singh Bahadur?
Guru Gobind Singh Ji
12) When did Banda
Singh Bahadur leave for Punjab?
1708 AD
13) How many arrows did
Guru Gobind Singh Ji give to Banda Singh Bahadur at the time of departure to
Punjab?
5
14) How many Sikhs did
Guru Gobind Singh Ji send with Banda Singh Bahadur?
25
15) How many orders did
Guru Gobind Singh Ji give to Banda Singh Bahadur?
5
16) From where did
Banda Singh Bahadur start his victories?
Sonipat
17) When did Banda
Singh Bahadur invade Sonipat?
1709 AD
18) Why did Banda Singh
Bahadur invade Samana?
To avenge the Martyrdom of Guru Teg
Bahadur Ji and youngest Sahibzadas
19) Kadamuddin was the
ruler of which area?
Kapoori
20) Which ruler of
Sadhora got Peer Budhu Shah assassinated?
Usmaan Khan
21) By what name was
Sadhaura known after the invasion of Banda Singh Bahadur?
Qatal Garhi
22) Why did Banda Singh
Bahadur invade Sirhind?
To avenge the martyrdom of youngest
Sahibzadas and Guru Gobind Singh Ji
23) When did the battle
of Chapparchiri take place?
1710 AD
24) To whom did Banda
Singh Bahadur appoint the ruler of Sirhind?
Bhai Baaz Singh
25) What name did Banda
Singh Bahadur give to Saharanpur?
Bhag Nagar
26) What was the name
of the capital of Banda Singh Bahadur?
Lohgarh
27) Where was Lohgarh
built?
At Mukhlispur
28) When did
Farrukhsiyar become the ruler of Mughals?
1713 AD
29) Whom did
Farukhsiyar order to take action against Banda Singh Bahadur?
Abdus Samad Khan
30) When was the battle
of Gurdas Nangal fought?
1715 AD
31) Who led the Mughal
army in the battle of Gurdas Nangal?
Abdus Samad Khan
32) From which place
did Banda Singh Bahadur fight against the Mughal army in the battle of Gurdas
Nangal?
Haveli of Duni Chand
33) Banda Singh Bahadur
had a difference of opinion with which Sikh in Duni Chand's Haveli and that
Sikh left the Haveli with his companions?
Bhai Binod Singh
34) How long did Banda
Singh Bahadur fight against the Mughals from Duni Chand's Haveli?
8 Months
35) When was Banda Singh
Bahadur arrested?
7 December 1715 AD
36) When was Banda
singh Bahadur martyred?
19 June 1716 AD
37) What was the name
of Banda Singh Bahadur's son?
Ajay Singh
38) Which revenue
system was abolished by Banda Singh Bahadur?
Zamindari
39) Which words was
coined by Banda Singh Bahadur in place of Fateh Dharam, ‘Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa
Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh’?
Fateh Darshan
40) Who was the first
Sikh to establish an independent Sikh state?
Banda Singh Bahadur
3-3 marks question:-
Q.1. Who was Banda Bairagi?
How did he become a Sikh?
Ans. Banda Singh Bahadur, whose first
name was Lachhman Dev was a resident of Rajouri village in district Poonch of
Kashmir. His heart was moved when he hunted down a pregnant she-deer. As a
result, he became a bairagi. He changed his name from Lachhman Dev to Madho Das.
It was Nanded that Madho Das met Guru Gobind Singh Ji in 1708 A.D. He was so
much impressed by the personality of Guru Gobind Singh Ji that he became a
Sikh.
Q.2. How Banda Singh Bahadur
set up the Sikh Empire?
Ans. Guru Gobind Singh Ji ordered
Banda Singh Bahadur to lead the Sikhs in Punjab against the Mughals. When Banda
Singh Bahadur came to the Punjab, the Sikhs extended him their full
cooperation. He soon conquered Sonipat, Kaithal, Saman, Kapuri and Sadhaura.
The conquest of Sirhind in 1710 A.D. was a great success of Banda Singh
Bahadur. He made Lohgarh his capital. He issued new coins and established an
independent Sikh State.
Q.3. Write a short note
on the conquest of Sadhaura by Banda Singh Bahadur?
Ans. The ruler of Sadhaura, Usman
Khan was notorious for his cruelties. There was hardly a Hindu woman whose
honour had not been attacked by his lust. Moreover, he never allowed the Hindus
to celebrate their festivals. Cows were slaughtered in front of the Hindu
houses. Banda Singh Bahadur launched a vigorous attack on Sadhaura. Banda Singh
Bahadur put to the sword such a large number of Muslims that the place came to
be known as Qatal garhi.
Q.4. Write a brief note
on the battle of Gurdas Nangal?
Ans. Abdus-Samad-Khan besieged Banda
Singh Bahadur at Gurdas Nangal in April 1715 A.D. This siege continued for
eight months. Gradually provisions ran out and condition of the Sikhs grew
critical. At this juncture, Baba Binod Singh advised Banda Singh Bahadur to
escape from the haveli but Banda Singh Bahadur refused to do so. So, Binod
Singh escaped from the haveli with his companions. At last Banda Singh Bahadur
had to give in on December 7, 1715 A.D.
Q.5. When, where and
how was Banda Singh Bahadur martyred?
Ans. In February 1716 A.D. Banda
Singh Bahadur and 740 Sikhs were sent in Delhi. In Delhi a big procession of
the Sikh prisoners was taken out. On June 19, 1716 came the turn of Banda Singh
Bahadur. He was offered the usual choice between Islam and death. But he
refused to abjure his faith. Then his young son, Ajay Singh, only four years
old, was hacked to pieces before his eyes. Thereafter Banda Singh Bahadur was
hacked to pieces limb by limb. The martyrdom of Banda Singh Bahadur infused a
new confidence among the Sikhs.
Q.6. What is the place
of Banda Singh Bahadur in the History of Punjab?
Ans. Undoubtedly, Banda Singh Bahadur
occupies a prominent place in the History of the Punjab. He was the first man
who laid the foundation of political sovereignty of the Sikhs. He taught the
Punjabis the lesson to do or die in order to resist tyrannies. In a short span
of 7-8 years he succeeded in shaking the very roots of the mighty Mughal
empire. The spark of independence ignited by him continued flickering and which
ultimately reduced the great Mughal empire to ashes.
