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Chota Ghallughara - The bloodiest massacres in Sikh history

Chotta Ghallughara

Chotta Ghallughara Source: Photo by Sikh Research Inst

Today on 17th May, we commemorate one of the bloodiest massacres in Sikh history. Known as Chota Ghallughara, around 10,000-15,000 Sikhs were killed in a battle on a single day in Kahnuvan, near Gurdaspur, about 130 kilometres to the north-east of Lahore, besides another few thousand that were capture and publically executed later. Preetinder Singh Grewal reports...


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Today on 17th May, we commemorate one of the bloodiest massacres in Sikh history. Known as Chota Ghallughara, around 10,000-15,000 Sikhs were killed in a battle on a single day in Kahnuvan, near Gurdaspur, about 130 kilometres to the north-east of Lahore, besides another few thousand that were capture and publically executed later. Preetinder Singh Grewal reports...



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