Later Mughals v1.c6.s15.20

v1.c6.s15.20

Tegh Bahadur returned at length to Anandpur. Sikh tradition asserts that he lived the harmless life of a wandering devotee. Apparently he was seized at Agra and by Alamgir's orders transferred to the capital. After many efforts to convert him to the Muhammadan faith, he was tortured and executed at Dihli in the year 1675 A.D.* One of this Guru's crimes, in the Emperor's eyes, may have been the style of address adopted by his disciples, who had begun to call their leader Sacha Padshah or the 'True King'. This title was readily capable of a twofold interpretation; it might be applied as the occasion served in a spiritual or a literal sense. Its use was extremely likely to provoke the mistrust of a ruler even less suspicious by nature than Alamgir.