![]() ![]() Dharam Kaur returned to Gujranwala when her son was about 13 years old. There Hari Singh learned Punjabi and Persian and trained in the manly arts of riding, musketry and swordsmanship. His mother, Dharam Kaur, had to move to her parental home to live under the care of her brothers. Hari Singh was hardly 7 years of age when his father died. Hari Singh Nalwa's spectacular achievements exemplified the tradition established by Guru Gobind Singh such that he came to be hailed as the "Champion of the Khalsa". Two centuries on, Britain, Pakistan, Russia and America have been unsuccessful in effecting law and order in this region. Hari Singh Nalwa's performance as an administrator and a military commander in the North West Frontier remains unmatched. Even in his death, Hari Singh Nalwa's formidable reputation ensured victory for the Sikhs against an Afghan force five times as numerous. He successfully thwarted the last foreign invasion into the subcontinent through the Khyber Pass at Jamrud, permanently blocking this route of the invaders. In his lifetime, Hari Singh became a terror to the ferocious tribes inhabiting these regions. For the past eight centuries, marauders, who had indulged in looting, plunder, rape, and forcible conversions to Islam had used this route into the subcontinent. He took the frontier of the Sarkar Khalsaji to the very mouth of the Khyber Pass. Hari Singh Nalwa was the Commander-in-chief at the most turbulent North West Frontier of Ranjit Singh's kingdom. His father, Gurdial Singh, had taken part in many of the campaigns of the Sukkarchakkias Charat Singh Sukkarchakia and Mahari Singh. His grandfather, Hardas Singh, had been killed fighting against Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1762. The family originally came from Majitha, near Amritsar. ![]() Hari Singh Nalwa (1791-1837), celebrated General of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was born in April 1791, at Gujranwala, now in Pakistan, to Gurdial Singh, an Uppal Sikh of the Sukerchakia Misl. File:A-portrait-of-Hari-Singh-3.jpgĪ Painting of the Sikh Lion Hari Singh Nalwa ![]()
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