Guru Gobind Singh:
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Guru Gobind Singh was the 10th Sikh guru.
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He was born in Patna, Bihar in 1666.
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He became the Sikh guru at the age of nine, following the demise of his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru.
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He founded the Sikh warrior community called Khalsa in 1699.
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He introduced the turban to cover the hair along with the principles of Khalsa or the five ‘K’s.
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He laid the rules of Khalsa warriors, like abstaining from tobacco, alcohol, halal meat, and imbibing the duty of protecting innocent people from prosecution.
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He named Guru Granth Sahib as the religious text of the Khalsa and the Sikhs.
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He fought against the Mughals in the Battle of Muktsar in 1705.
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He also wrote the Zafarnama which was a letter to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.