Azaad
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What about Hindu women ? Practically every Punjabi Hindu family raised one of their sons to be a Sikh . To add to that they had roti beti rishta with the Hindus . So whom exactly were they saving ? That Hind di Chaddar myth owes itself to writings more than a century after their 9th Guru was murdered by Zebu. Subsequently a huge myth was created around it .Literally all sources regarding this are from sardars, and they specifically mention Hindus only as victims as if their Sikh women were spared. Gave them too much credit, more than those supremacist scums deserved.
His own son their 10th Guru never mentioned anything of this sort in his Bicchitar Natak only mentioning in verse form - He died for the sacred thread & caste marks aka Janeu & Tikka with the caveat being it was HIS janeu & tikka , since the Gurus like all Khatris were obliged to wear both .
Mughal chroniclers are on a different track altogether. They describe the 9th Guru as a charlatan who was busy hoodwinking people & extorting money from them under the garb of donations to a holy man & his mission , moving around Punjab & surrounding areas with bands of armed men .
Since the Mughals never took alternative centres of power lightly especially since the Sikhs under their previous Gurus had sided with Dara Shikoh in the battle of succession with Zebu which inturn brought the Sikhs & their Gurus under a cloud , he summoned the Guru to his court for an explanation & asked him to convert to Islam which the Guru declined.
Long story short , he was executed under Zebu's orders. The rest is mostly if not all myth making something the Hindus played their part in propagating & sustaining much to their regret now.