Sikh Holocaust Of 1746
The Chhōṭā Ghallūghārā (Punjabi: ਛੋਟਾ ਘੱਲੂਘਾਰਾ ) was a massacre of a significant proportion of the Sikh population by Muslims during the waning years of the Mughal Empire. Chhōṭā Ghallūghārā is Punjabi for "Lesser Massacre". As such, it is distinguished from the Vaḍḍā Ghallūghārā "the great massacre of 1762. An estimated 7000 Sikhs died in these attacks.
The ghallūghārā were not pogroms in the sense of the killing of masses of defenseless people. Since the martyrdom of the fifth Sikh Master, Guru Arjan in 1606, Sikhs have known the use of arms and the need of self-defense. They are called ghallūghārā because of the wholesale slaughter of the innocent, with the intention of genocide. The first Chhōṭā Ghallūghārā was a dramatic and bloody massacre during the campaign of Afghanistan's (Durrani Empire) provincial government based at Lahore to wipe out the Sikhs, an offensive that had begun with the Mughals and lasted several decades.
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