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'''Baba Jiwan Singh''' ([[Gurmukhi]]: ਬਾਬਾ ਜੀਵਨ ਸਿੰਘ; 30 November 1649 – 7 December 1704), born '''Bhai Jaita''', was a [[Sikh]] general and companion of [[Guru Gobind Singh]].<br />
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| name = Baba Jiwan Singh<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1649|11|30|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Patna]], [[Subah #List of Subahs of the Mughal Empire|Bihar Subah]], [[Mughal Empire]] <br> {{small|(present-day [[Bihar]], [[India]])}}<br />
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1704|12|7|1649|11|30|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = Majri, [[Subah of Lahore|Lahore Subah]], [[Mughal Empire]]<ref name="sarsa">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06k5ygAACAAJ|title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges|page=914|publisher=Greenwood Press|author= Jacques, Tony|year=2007|isbn=978-0-313-33536-5}}</ref> <br> {{small|(present-day [[Rupnagar district]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[India]])}}<br />
| parents = Sada Nand<br>Mata Premo<br />
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==Early life==<br />
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Bhai Jaita was born in 1649 at [[Patna]], [[Bihar]] (India) to Sada Nand and mother, Mata Premo.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} He grew up at Patna where he got training in various weapons and learned the art of warfare. In addition, he learned horse-riding, swimming, music and Kirtan.<ref>Gandhi, S.S. (2007) History of Sikh Gurus Retold: 1606–1708 C.E. Atlantic Publishers & Dist p1109 {{ISBN|8126908580}}</ref> When Sikh families staying at Patna returned to Punjab Bhai Jaita and his family went to Ramdas village and lived with [[Bhai Gurditta]], the great grandson of [[Baba Buddha]]. Later, Jaita married Bibi Raj Kaur, daughter of Surjan Singh.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bhai Jaita Ji known 'Rangreta Guru ka Beta' daily post|url=https://dailypost.in/news/top-5/bhai-jaita-ji-known-rangreta-guru-ka-beta/|date=2017-07-30|website=Latest Punjab News, Breaking News Punjab, India News {{!}} Daily Post|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-27}}</ref><br />
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When [[Guru Tegh Bahadur]], the ninth guru of Sikh, was martyred by the Mughals at [[Chandni Chowk]], [[Delhi]], Singh along with two other Sikhs, recovered his dismembered body from a [[Muslim]] crowd and brought it back to his son, [[Guru Gobind Singh]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}<br />
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There after Guru Gobind honoured them with the title ''Mazhabi'' ("faithful")<ref name="yong">{{cite book |last=Yong |first=Tan Tai |year=2005 |title=The Garrison State: The Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849–1947 |publisher=SAGE |page=73 |isbn=978-8-13210-347-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d5ZiMV7rqWUC&pg=PA1897}}</ref> and said loudly, "''Rangrete Guru Ke Bete''"(The Rangretas are the Guru's sons) to the all [[Mazhabi Sikh]]s. After that, Singh was instructed by his father to behead him in order to swap the head of his father for that of Guru Tegh Bahadur. Bhai Jiwan Singh carries out his father's wish and carried the head of Guru Tegh Bahadur from Delhi to Gobind Rai in [[Anandpur Sahib]].<ref>{{cite book |last=McLeod |first=W. H. |author-link=W. H. McLeod |year=2009 |title=The A to Z of Sikhism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgixwfeCyDAC&pg=PA171 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=171 |isbn=978-0-81086-344-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=W. Owen |last=Cole |title=Understanding Sikhism |publisher=Dunedin Academic Press |year=2004 |page=153 |url=https://www.questia.com/read/119495281/understanding-sikhism }}{{dl|date=July 2021}}{{ISBN?}}</ref><br />
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==Battles and Death==<br />
Singh was with the Guru during the evacuation of [[Anandpur Sahib]]<ref>Gandhi, S.S. (2007) History of Sikh Gurus Retold: 1606–1708 C.E. Atlantic Publishers & Dist p1109 {{ISBN|8126908580}}</ref> and fought the battles of Bhangani, Nadaun, Anandpur Sahib, Bajrur, Nirmohgarh, all four wars of Anandpur Sahib, Bansali/Kalmot and Sarsa.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bhai Jiwan Singh - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.|url=https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Bhai_Jiwan_Singh|website=www.sikhiwiki.org|access-date=2020-05-27}}</ref> He died in [[Battle of Chamkaur]] after Guru Gobind Singh Ji gave him the Kalghi and cholla, his clothes, for confusing Mughals.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Grewal|first=J. S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YDLNDwAAQBAJ&q=bhai+jiwan+singh+death&pg=PT120|title=Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708): Master of the White Hawk|date=2019-07-25|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-099038-1|language=en}}</ref><br />
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Bhai Jiwan Singh also wrote about the exploits of Guru Gobind Singh, in his magnum opus the ''''Sri Gur Katha'''<nowiki/>'.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Nayar|first=Rana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTorDwAAQBAJ&q=bhai+jiwan+singh+sri+gur+katha&pg=PA66|title=Cultural Studies in India|date=2017-07-05|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-57037-4|language=en}}</ref><br />
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After his death in 1705 a tomb was erected to honor him at [[Gurudwara Shaheed Burj Sahib]] at [[Chamkaur]].<br />
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