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{{Infobox royalty
| succession = Founder of the [[Nakai Misl]]
| reign = 1748-1767
| predecessor =
| successor = Nar Singh Nakai
| birth_date = 1706
| birth_place = [[Baherwal Kalan]], [[Punjab]], [[Sikh Confederacy]]
| death_date = 1776
| death_place = [[Pakpattan]], [[Sikh Confederacy]]
| spouse =
| issue = Dal Singh Nakai
| house = [[Nakai Misl|Nakai]]
| father = Chaudhry Sandhu
| mother =
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'''Sardar Heera Singh Sandhu''' (1706–1776) was the founder of [[Nakai Misl]], one of the twelve [[Misl|Sikh Misls]] that later became the [[Sikh Empire]] under the leadership of [[Ranjit Singh]]. Heera Singh Sandhu was killed in battle near [[Pakpattan]] when he partook in a battle against a ''Chisti'' army of devotees of [[Shrine of Baba Farid|Baba Farid's shrine]] in 1776.<ref name="c">{{cite book|author1=Richard M. Eaton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5-vzVq8hdkC&q=pakpattan&pg=PA349|title=Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam|date=1984|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520046603|editor1-last=Metcalf|editor1-first=Barbara Daly|location=|pages=350|authorlink1=Authority of the Shrine of Baba Farid|accessdate=30 August 2017}}</ref>

==Life==
Heera Singh Sandhu was born into Jat Sikh family in 1706 in the region of [[Punjab]] in what is now [[Pakistan]]. He took possession of the lands surrounding his native village, [[Baherwal Kalan]] and countryside of Kasur which was located in the Nakka country South of [[Majha]] Region. He took Amrit Sanchar (Sikh Baptism) in 1731. ''Nakka'' in Punjabi means border or some sort of a gateway and the Nakka country was located between the [[Ravi River|Ravi]] and [[Sutlej]] south of [[Lahore]]. He also took [[Chunian]] from the [[Afghanistan|Afghans]] but died (became a Shaheed) in a battle against [[Sujan Chisti]] for [[Pakpattan]]. His companions brought his dead body to Baherwal where it was cremated. Heera Singh Sandhu's son, Dal Singh Sandhu, was a minor, so his nephew, Nar Singh Sandhu son of Heera Singh Sandhu's brother Natha Singh Sandhu, succeeded him as leader of the [[misl]]. Natha Singh is the father of Sardar Ran Singh Nakai and grandfather of [[Maharani Datar Kaur]], wife of [[Maharaja Ranjit Singh]] and mother of [[Maharaja Kharak Singh]].{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

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