Describe the detail about adopting new policy by guru Hargobind ji
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Guru Hargobind was born in 1595, in Wadali, Amritsar. He was appointed as his father Guru Arjan Dev’s successor after Mughal Emperor Jahangir executed him. Historians maintain that Jahangir was threatened by the growing strength of the Sikh community and so summoned Guru Arjan Dev to Lahore. Preempting that he would never be able to return, Arjan Dev appointed his 11-year-old son, Hargobind, as the next Guru on 25 May 1606.
Guru Hargobind emphasised the need to develop a warrior spirit in the Sikh community because it was undergoing persecution from the Mughal rulers. In light of this threat, he mobilised an army and named it Sant Sipahi (saint soldiers). Cunningham’s book informs that he had a stable of 800 horses while “three hundred mounted followers were constantly in attendance upon him, and a guard of sixty matchlock-men secured the safety of his person, had he ever feared or though of assassination”.