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'''Baba Baj Singh''' (died 1716), also known as '''Baj Bahadur''', was a Sikh general, governor, scholar and martyr from present-day India.<br />
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{{Infobox Biography<br />
| honorific_prefix = Baba<br />
| name = Baj Singh<br />
| honorific_suffix = Bahadur<br />
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| caption = <br />
| birth_date = Baj Singh Bal<br />
| death_date = 1716<br />
| death_place = Delhi, Mughal Empire<br />
| death_cause = Execution<br />
}}<br />
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==Family==<br />
Baj Singh's family was native to Mirpur Patti, a village in [[Amritsar district]] of the Punjab.<ref name="Gupta">{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Hari Ram |authorlink1=Hari Ram Gupta |title=History of the Sikhs: The Sikh commonwealth or Rise and fall of Sikh misls |date=2001 |publisher=[[Munshiram Manoharlal]] |isbn=978-8121501651 |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S1wwAQAAIAAJ |access-date=24 November 2018 |quote=Baj Singh was a Bal Jat of village Mirpur in Parganah Patti<sup>1</sup> of Amritsar district.}}</ref> He was born into a Jat Sikh family of the Bal clan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ਬਾਜ ਸਿੰਘ - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪੀਡੀਆ |trans-title=Baj Singh |url=https://punjabipedia.org/topic.aspx?txt=%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%9C%20%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%98 |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=punjabipedia.org |language=Punjabi}}</ref><br />
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==Execution==<br />
He was executed on 9 June 1716 on the outskirts of [[Delhi]], on the bank of the [[Yamuna]] river along with his seven brothers and [[Banda Singh Bahadur]].<br />
[[File:Bhai Baaj singh statue on Fatehburj sahib.jpg|thumb|Bhai Baj Singh statue at Fatehburj Sahib]]<br />
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==Battles fought by Baj Singh==<br />
* [[Battle of Sonipat]]<br />
* [[Battle of Samana]]<br />
* [[Battle of Sadhaura]]<br />
* [[Battle of Chappar Chiri]]<br />
* [[Battle of Jammu]]<br />
* [[Battle of Jalalabad (1710)]]<br />
* [[Battle of Lohgarh]]<br />
* [[Battle of Gurdas Nangal]] or [[Siege of Gurdaspur]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/latermughals/farrukhsiyar/farrukhsiyar.html|title=farrukhsiyar|publisher=Columbia.edu|access-date=16 October 2014}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Indian generals]]<br />
[[Category:Executed Indian people]]<br />
[[Category:People executed by the Mughal Empire]]<br />
[[Category:Executed military personnel]]</div>Bot