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Ninth Guru | Sikh
The ninth Guru earned the title Hind di Chaadar — Shield of India — for an act that stands nearly alone in religious history: he was martyred defending the right of Kashmiri Hindus to practice their own religion. When a delegation of Kashmiri Pandits came to him in 1675 fleeing Aurangzeb’s forced conversions, his nine-year-old son Gobind Rai asked: “Who is greater than you to make this sacrifice?” Tegh Bahadur traveled to Delhi, publicly refused conversion, and was beheaded at Chandni Chowk on November 11, 1675. His severed head was carried to Delhi by his disciple Jaita; his body was cremated at the site where Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib now stands, and Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib marks the place of his execution.
Parallels: Thomas Becket (church leader martyred by the state for refusing submission); Maximilian Kolbe (died in another’s place at Auschwitz); Socrates (chose death over recantation) — but Tegh Bahadur’s sacrifice was for people of a different religion entirely, which is historically without parallel. See also: [Guru Gobind Singh](#guru-gobind-singh), [Guru Arjan Dev Ji](#guru-arjan-dev-ji)
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