Heera Singh Sandhu

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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, Mughal Empire

| death_date = 1776

| death_place = Pakpattan, Sikh Confederacy

| spouse =

| issue = Dal Singh Nakai

| house = 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 Sikh Misls that later became the Sikh Empire under the leadership of Ranjit Singh. Heera Singh was born in a Sandhu Jat Sikh family in present-day Pakistan.{{Cite book |last=Gandhi |first=Surjit Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiluAAAAMAAJ |title=Sikhs in the Eighteenth Century: Their Struggle for Survival and Supremacy |date=1999 |publisher=Singh Bros. |isbn=978-81-7205-217-1 |language=en}} He was killed in battle near Pakpattan when he partook in a battle against a Chisti Army of devotees of Baba Farid's shrine in 1776.{{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}}