History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c48.s4.1

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Aurangzib summoned Har Krishan to Delhi to decide the suit. But before it could be done, the boy guru died of small-pox (1664), and the same scene of disorder and rapacity again broke out among the Sikhs. "Twenty-two [men] of Bakala claimed the right to succeed him. These self-made gurus forcibly took the offerings of the Sikhs." (Mac., iv. 332.) After a time Tegh Bahadur, the youngest son of Har Govind, succeeded in being recognized as guru by most of the Sikhs. With his personal followers he accompanied Rajah Ram Singh (the son of Mirza Rajah Jai Singh) to the Assam war (1668) and fought in the Mughal ranks as a mercenary; but he came back to Upper India in a few years, and took up his residence at Anandpur.