How Hindus Fought To Keep India Hindu Againt Islam

[Bharatvarsh]

The samadhi of his wife is in Batala evidently:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There is a Sati Lakshmi Park which house the smadh of Lakshmi Devi, the wife of Vir Haqiqat Rai of Sialkot

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For example, the celebration of Basant Festival at Lahore at the Samadhi of Veer Haqiqat Rai, a Nanak Panthi boy, married to a Sikh girl who was beheaded in 1742 for passing some retaliatory remarks against the Prophet when the Maulvi of his madrasa at Sialkot spoke against Hindu gods. He was sentenced by a Qazi at Lahore to be tortured and killed. His martyrdom gave a sort of electric shock to the Hindus and Sikhs of entire Punjab so that a party of Khalsas attacked Sialkot and killed all the Maulavis and Qazis responsible for his death. Ranjit Singh, whose kingdom was Hindu, to all intents and purposes used to arrange a guard of honour at Haqiqat Rai's shrine which is near the Shalimar Garden of Lahore. The biographer of Mohan Lal describes what he was as follows:

"The Basant festival fell on February 6 (1832). It was celebrated with great pomp and show at the shrine of Haqiqat Rai, 7 kms away from the city (at a village named Shah Bilawal). The Sikh troops clad in yellow uniform lined the road on the both sides. Then the Maharaja (Ranjit Singh) dressed in yellow robes, and accompanied by his European officers rode to the tents which were made of yellow silk and shawls and adorned with pearls. Among them was a canopy valued at one lakh of rupees. It was covered with pearls having a border of precious diamonds. Burnes wrote: "Nothing can be imagined more grand'. Mohan Lal says the Maharaja was received in his camp with most extravagant demonstrations of joy - Long live the good liege of Five Rivers! Was the general cry."

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