Baj Singh
{{Short description|Sikh warrior}}
{{Infobox Biography
| honorific_prefix = Baba
| name = Baj Singh
| honorific_suffix = Bahadur
| image = Bhai Baaj singh statue on Fatehburj sahib.jpg
| caption = Bhai Baj Singh statue at Fatehburj Sahib
| birth_date = Baj Singh Bal
| death_date = 9 June 1716
| death_place = Delhi, Delhi Subah, Mughal Empire
| death_cause = Execution
}}
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Baba Baj Singh (died 9 June 1716; his first name is alternatively spelt as Baaj), also known as Baj Bahadur, was a Sikh general, governor, scholar and martyr from present-day India.
Biography
File:Binod Singh, Kahan Singh, Baj Singh, Daya Singh, and Ram Singh depicted as a Panj Piare group from a gilded panel from Takht Hazur Sahib, Nanded.jpeg, Kahan Singh, Baj Singh, Daya Singh, and Ram Singh depicted as a Panj Piare group from a gilded panel from Takht Hazur Sahib, Nanded]]
Baj Singh's family was native to Mirpur Patti, a village in Amritsar district of the Punjab.{{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 Patti1 of Amritsar district.}} He was born into a Jat Sikh family of the Bal clan.{{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}} He was part of a Panj Piare quintet commanded, by Guru Gobind Singh, to accompany Banda Singh Bahadur and provide him counsel on his northwards conquest of Sirhind.{{Cite book |last=Sagoo |first=Harbans Kaur |title=Banda Singh Bahadur and Sikh Sovereignty |publisher=Deep & Deep Publications |year=2001 |isbn=9788176293006 |pages=119}}
= Execution =
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.
Battles fought by Baj Singh
- Battle of Sonipat
- Battle of Samana
- Battle of Sadhaura
- Battle of Chappar Chiri
- Battle of Brahampur
- Battle of Jammu
- Battle of Jalalabad (1710)
- Battle of Lohgarh
- Battle of Gurdas Nangal or Siege of Gurdaspur{{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}}