12 SIKH MISLS
SIKH MISLS Post Banda Singh Bahadur’s death, a trend evolved in which fractious, freewheeling bands of warriors of varying strengths scoured the countryside acquiring/defending their possessions, 65 such hands existed, but over time, coalesced into 12 jathas or ‘Miss (Arab for ‘Like’). Otherwise fractious, they united to defend Sikhism when it was under Mughal/Afghan threat. […]Read More