* Banda Singh Bahadur ( 1670 – 1716 ), Sikh military leader

* Baba Banda Singh Bahadur: fought and defeated the Mughal Governor of Punjab, Wazir Khan, and established a Sikh force in PunjabInterior view of Gurdwara Hazur Sahib Nanded, Maharashtra, India.

His son Ala Singh assumed the leadership in 1714 A. D. when Banda Bahadur was engaged in the fierce struggle against the Mughals.

Bahadur Shah constantly struggled with the rise of Sikh strength, with the Sikh General Banda Singh Bahadur being a constant threat to the empire.

Guru Gobind Singh in Oct, 1708 deputed his disciple Banda Singh Bahadur to lead the Khalsa in an uprising against the Mughals.

Banda Singh Bahadur first established a Sikh kingdom and then brought in the Land reforms in the form of breaking up large estates and distributing the land to peasants.

Baba Banda Singh Bahadur War Memorial at Mohali, Punjab

* Baba Banda Singh Bahadur War Memorial, which is one of the most best site and the most visited site by the tourists in the city.

* Banda Singh Bahadur, great Sikh warrior and general

* Banda Singh Bahadur, Sikh warrior and martyr

The doctrine is first found in written form in Persian, on the seal of Banda Singh Bahadur ( 1708 – 1716 ), stamped on his letters.

After Banda Singh, this inscription was adopted by the Sikh Misals and then by Sikh rulers for their coins also.

On May 12, 2010, to commemorate first rule established by Sikh leader Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, Dal Khalsa held a big Sikh parade in India starting from Chaparchiri to Fatehgarh Sahib where flag of Khalistan was unfurled and saluted and pictures of Sikh militants ( who died fighting for Khalistan ) were openely displayed.

General Banda Bahadur, the famous disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, went from being a Hindu to a Sikh and adapted to wearing this attire.

Banda Bahadur, the disciple of Guru Gobind Singh used this district as a base to raid the country up to Lahore, the emperor Bahadur Shah conducted an expedition against him in 1711 but with only temporary effect.

In 1707, Veer Lakshman Singh ( Banda Bahadur ) attacked Hansi and punished Muslims.

Banda Singh Bahadur ( Punjabi: ਬ ੰ ਦ ਾ ਸ ਿੰ ਘ ਬਹ ਾ ਦਰ )( 1670 – 1716 ) aka Laxman Das was a Sikh Military Commander and martyr.

Guru Gobind Singh gave him the new name of Banda Singh Bahadur.

After establishing his authority in Punjab, Banda Singh Bahadur abolished the zamindari system, and granted property rights to the tillers of the land.

There are different views regarding origin of Banda Singh Bahadur:

* Giani Budh Singh a noted scholar of Poonch in his famous book " Chhowen Rattan " described Banda Bahadur as " Brahmin ".

* Dr. Harjinder Singh Dilgeer in his book ' Sikh Twareekh ( 1469-2007 )' ( published by Singh Brothers Amritsar, in 5 volumes in 2008 ) narrates that Banda Singh was a Rajput, born in 1670.

* June 9 – Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander ( executed ) ( b. 1670 )

Shamsher Bahadur's son, Ali Bahadur, ruled over Baji Rao's lands in Bundelkhand, and founded the state of Banda, UP.

The Sikh leader Banda was finally dealt with, when the experienced Mughal commander Abdus Samad Khan Bahadur and his son Zakariya Khan Bahadur including Zain ud-din Ahmad Khan the new Faujdar of Sirhind with 7000 troops, Qamar-ud-Din Khan Bahadur with 20, 000 troops, had him surrounded during the Siege of Gurdaspur.

Ghani Bahadur Banda was appointed its first Maratha governor.

Ghani Bahadur Banda was appointed the first Maratha governor of the district.

As you go seven kilometers from the city in the western direction, you will reach Gurdas Nangal, a holy place linked with the heroic battle of Banda Bahadur with Mughal armies.

The first written accounts of Banda are in Suma Oriental, a book written by the Portuguese apothecary Tomé Pires who was based in Malacca from 1512 to 1515 but visited Banda several times.

The first Federalist leader in the Platine Region was José Gervasio Artigas, who opposed the centralist governments in Buenos Aires that followed the May Revolution, and created instead the Federal League in 1814 among several Argentine Provinces and the Banda Oriental ( modern-day Uruguay ).

The city is served by several bus lines that have routes within the city limits, and some others that connect it to the neighbouring cities of Yerba Buena, El Manantial, Tafí Viejo, Las Talitas, Banda del Río Salí, and Alderetes.

The city hosts several choirs and orchestras, like the well-known university choir and the EPABI orchestra, which is based in the building near the public garden ( location has now changed to the lower parts of the city ), as well as the Orquestra da Banda Filarmónica.

The oldest newspaper in Banda Aceh, also around Aceh are Harian Serambi Indonesia, besides several newspapers, such as Harian Aceh, Harian Waspada, Harian ProHaba, and Harian RajaPost.

The Nortec Collective has borrowed several elements of Banda music sub-culture and have used them both in their songs ( Narcoteque, Almada ) and in their visuals and album covers.

Not long after Malawi had gained independence from Great Britain in July 1964, he was one of several cabinet ministers who, chafing under an increasingly autocratic leadership, were ousted by Banda in the so-called Cabinet Crisis.

The entire Sikh peasantry of the neighbourhood was now up in arms and sided with Banda Singh, such was the centuries old accumulated anger of native Sikhs against Muslims that peasant army following Banda Singh had risen to several thousands.

A television miniseries adaptation aired beginning on February 19, 1984, starring Dyan Cannon as Kate Blackwell, Ian Charleson as Jamie MacGregor, David Birney as David Blackwell, Harry Hamlin as Tony Blackwell, Johnny Sekka as Banda, Cherie Lunghi as Margaret MacGregor, and Fernando Allende as George Mellis, with several notable but uncredited cameos, including Alan Dobie ( as MacMillan ) and Stratford Johns ( as Zimmerman ).

Among the various communities settled in Mhow some have a distinctive Raj connection ; these include the Parsis or Zoroastrians, the Goan Catholics, the Anglo Indians, a community of Hyderabadi Muslims and the Ahir Muslims of Banda Basti.

In the seventeenth century, tensions between the Muslims and the local pagans in Begho erupted into a destructive war which eventually led to the total abandonement of the Banda capital.

He was given an advisory council of the following five devoted Sikhs ( Hazuri Singhs ), who on their arrival in the Punjab were to assure the Sikhs that Banda was the Guru's nominee and deputy and to organize them in order to lead an expedition against Muslims and Sirhind to avenge the atrocities against Sikhs:

On the approach of Banda Singh Bahadur's army, the leading Muslims of the town gathered in a big and strongly built mansion.

Assisted by his Sikh peasant army, Banda Singh Bahadur established complete and popular sovereignty, implementing agricultural land ownership reforms and accumulating volunteer Sarv-khap based Sikh forces to fight to over throw Muslims controls.

Binod Singh advised the evacuation of the fortress, but vailant Banda wished to fight Muslims out there.