1/ Jassa Singh Ahluwalia & his role in the history of Shri Harmandir Sahib (A Thread)

2/ Jassa Singh was born in 1720/21 at a village called Ahlu in the Lahore District of Punjab.

3/ Jassa Singh was educated in Delhi, in Persian, Arabic & more, under the care & supervision of Mata Sundari Ji.

Mata Sundari Gurdwara in Delhi.

4/ In 1733, Jassa Singh's mama, Thag Singh (ਤਾਗ ਸਿੰਘ), requested Mata Sundari Ji's permission to take Jassa Singh back to Punjab.

5/ At first Mata Ji refused but eventually gave permission for Jassa Singh to go with his mama, giving Jassa Singh a blessing and weapons, informing him, it was now the right time to take up arms.

This #thread describes Banda Singh Bahadur's entry into Delhi on February 27th, 1716, taken from from a letter dated March 10, 1716, written by Messrs. John Surman and Edward Stephenson to the Hon'ble Robert Hedges, President and Governor of Fort William, Council in Bengal.

John Surman and Edward Stephenson and their Secretary, Hugh Barker, were then present in the Mughal capital as ambassadors of the East India Company's Council in Bengal to the Court of Emperor Farruk-Siyar.

Under instructions of their principals, the ambassadors maintained a regular diary of the events and transactions at the royal court, and wrote to Calcutta to keep the headquarters informed of the political and other developments there.

🗺️Historical Map of India 1700-1792

The letter can be found in the Madras Diary and Consultation Book for 1715 to 1719, No 87, Range 237 in the India Office (Commonwealth Relations Office), London.

It has been reproduced in C.R Wilson's The Early Annals of the English in Bengal, volume II, part II (Calcutta, 1991), pp. 96-98, it has also been reproduced in J.T Wheeler's Early Records of British India, pp. 180.