History of two legend Baba Bota Singh and Garja Singh

Baba Garja Singh and Bota Singh are two legend of our Sikh history, who had clashed with the government of the time. Such an example is not found anywhere in the world. However, the true description of his heroic and bloody martyr is generally unknown.

The details are shocking and awe-inspiring. How, with broken bones, they turn towards the enemy, most history books are ignored.

Here is a very ancient description of his martyrs.

Boda Singh (in 1739), an eighteenth-century martyr of Sikhism, was a resident of Parana village in Amritsar district. During the severe persecution, he along with many fellow Sikhs sought protection of the forest and jungle. In the evening, he would go out of his hiding place and come to some human settlements in search of food. Sometimes he used to go for a swim in the holy tub which stayed all day in the holy swimming pool in Amritsar at night. One day some people thought that he is a Sikh.

But someone in the party said that he is not a Sikh because he cannot be covered in this way if he becomes one. Teeda Boda Singh quickly cut down. Rarigretta along with his partner Karja Singh, a Sikh, grabbed a bamboo stick and parked himself on the huge trunk road near Sarai Noor Uddin near Dorn Taran. To declare his presence and sovereignty of Kalsa, he began to collect tolls from passers-by. Finding that each complied with his authority, he sent a communication to the provincial governor.

The words of the letter are preserved in Punjabi mythology:

Siddi Liqui Singh Boda: Hath is small, wich stay kalota anna laya kade nu, money brought quota. Ego Bobby Kano Nu, Yeon AK Singh Boda.

Boda Singh wrote this letter:

I was standing on the street with a big club in hand. I have a brother in the car and a donkey in the ass. Tell this to your sister Kano, she announced my sister-in-law Boda Singh.

The wife of the Mughal governor has created a stir here using her popular name "Kano". Boda Singh called him his bobby, that is, the wife may know a brother (see without pura).

Governor Zakaria Khan sent a team of one hundred horses under Jalal Divas to capture Boda Singh alive and taken to Lahore. Jalal Din surrendered to Boda Singh and Karja Singh and asked him to come with him to Lahore, promising to obtain the governor's pardon. Boda Singh and his companions turned down the offer and bravely took off against the overwhelming prospects. This happened in 1739.