BANDA SINGH  BAHADUR  EARLIER KNOWN AS LAKSHMAN DEV. He was from  jammu region and played very dominant role after the death of Guru gobind Singh, the tenth guru of sikhs at Nanded. 

The Guru fought mughal emperor  Most cruel and cunning Aurangzeb  through out his life and all his four sons were sacrificed in the struggle. The two elder sons laid down lives in battles while the two younger sons  were bricked alive by wazir khan the governor of sirhind. 

BANDA SINGH organised the sikh army   and waged wars against mughals as retaliation. Battle  of Sirhind was fought on may 2, 1710 and   Wazir khan the  governor was killed in the battle. Revenge was thus  accomplished. Banda played havoc with mughal forces in Punjab  and   the mughals  by virtue of large army recovered lost  territories and the sikhs were driven to hills. Farukh siyar was the emperror at Delhi. Finally at gurdas nangal ,4000 sikh army was were put under seize by 100,000 mughal troops and  Bandas army in the fort were subject to great sufferings  without food and water. Internal differences between Banda and a fellow commander Baba Binod singh Jatjedar of Budha dal  made situation mote difficult. Baba  Binod singh with his followers escaped from the fort opening the gates .   At last, the sikh army was captured and prionsers were taken to Delhi where they were put to great insults torture and Banda was executed  by beheading  on 9 June 1716 along with scores of associates. An era in sikh history came to an end. It was revived again only during maharaja Ranjit singhs time.