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horses and ordered his subjects to begin horse-breeding. Other evidence also confirms the high quality of the local horse breed, a standard that was kept up by the foreign horses that staged the perennial invasions from the north-west. Sultan Balban (1266-87), being cut off from foreign sources, procured most of his cavalry horses in the Bhatti area. The whole of the eastern Punjab, but the Lakhi Jungle in particular, remained a major horse-breeding area up to the nineteenth century,
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According to local tradition, one of the Bhatti chiefs, Rana Lakhi, settled in the Lakhi Jungle, the extensive jungle produced by the ever shifting Sutlej, in the reign of Mahmud of Ghazni (998-1030). He subsequently became a Muslim and founded 300 villages. He also procured a great number of Iranian
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LAKHI JUNGLE. A wasteland south of Firozpur where the Khalsa sheltered during periods of persecution in the 18th century. The sheltering likely had to do with the fact that the area was a well-known ground of horse
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The Guru camped in Lakhi jungle, a forest between the towns of Bhatinda and Kotkapura, for a while, and then moved on to Talwandi Sabo, where he was greeted with great warmth by Bhai Dalla, the landlord.
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of India between 1764 and 1765, the Sikhs used the jungle as a hideout. The area was known for its horse traders, which may have partly attracted Sikh refugees to the area. Historian
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notes that the Sikhs of the 18th century used the jungle as a place of safety from state oppression and as a staging ground to launch attacks on plundering neighbouring villages and
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of the Lakhi Jungle in the 18th century. The area was well-renowned for horse-breeding and its oxen all the way up till the 19th century. The jungle itself has mostly since been
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visited this place. During the time period of Guru Gobind Singh and later, the area of the later Firozpur division was covered by a dense forest which stretched from Bathinda to
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chief, named Rana Lakhi, is said to have settled in the area of the Lakhi Jungle around the turn of the millennium between the 10th and 11th centuries. The ninth Sikh Guru,
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Hymn of Guru Gobind Singh in Raga Majh written in the Lakhi Jungle sometime in December 1705. From a manuscript copy by Bhai Mani Singh.
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Detail of the Lakhi Jungle tract as surveyed by Mirza Mogul Beg between 1786–96 for F. Wilford, map compiled in 1804.
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used the surrounding jungle (from which the village takes its name) as a hideout from persecution by the
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Detail of the Lakhi Jungle tract from a sketch map of the country northwest of
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Gandhi, Surjit Singh (2007). "Khalsa Battles Against Mughal Imperialism".
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The Indian Frontier : Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires
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Irvine, William (1991). "Sikhs Ravage North Punjab Repeatedly".
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A jungle formed in this area due to the shifting course of the
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Singh, Manjit; Vakta, Harbhajan Singh (October 2020).
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A short history of the Sikhs. Volume one, 1469-1765
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Index

Lakhi Jungle

Delhi
Ravi River
Haryana
Bikaner
William Francklin
Punjab, India
jungle
Punjab, India
Machhiwara jungle

Sutlej river
Bhatti
Guru Teg Bahadur
Guru Gobind Singh
Kotkapura
Kavi Darbar

Sikhs
Mughal Empire
Duranni Empire
Ahmad Shah Durrani
invasion
Muzaffar Alam
extracting tribute
zamindars
Abdus-samad Khan
Bhatti
deforested

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