Starved out after a siege of about eight months, Banda Singh and his men were captured.
01The siege
Emperor Farrukhsiyar ordered the governor of Lahore to end the Sikh rising at any cost. Banda Singh was cornered in the haveli of Duni Chand at Gurdas Nangal in the spring of 1715. The Mughals dug lines round it and waited. The defenders ate their horses and then grass and bark. In December 1715 the survivors, too weak to fight, were taken.
02Delhi, 1716
Banda Singh and several hundred Sikhs were marched to Delhi in chains. Day after day the Sikhs were put to death, and contemporary observers, among them officers of the English East India Company then in Delhi, wrote that none would save his life by giving up his faith. Banda Singh was executed in June 1716 after his young son was killed before his eyes.
The end of the first Sikh state; the Khalsa scattered into the forests and returned within a generation as the misls.