Originally posted by lemontree
You are getting selective now, the Anandpur battle of 1701 was between a combined force of the Mughals abd the Shivalik kings (who were vassels of the Mughals).
Before that in 1688 the battle of Bhangani, was not for religious reasons, but a pre-emptive strike against a rising military force in Anandpur, which is on the foot hills for the Shivaliks. The Khalsa panth came up in 1699 and the prime reason was religious persecution, the guru's had armies before that too.
You are just reiterating what I have already said, but excusing the war waged by the Sivalik Kingdoms against Sikhs as nothing but a 'power struggle' but the Mughal wars as being driven by religious hatred. This is double standards. Both, the Hindu Sivalik Kingdoms and the Mughals were driven by the same thing; the fear of loosing power to the Sikhs. Both their aims were the same, kill the Sikh Guru and destroy the Sikhs as a political and military entity.
Who are the 5 extra guru's that you mention? There are only 10.
Your preference aside, you cannot deny that the Khalsa panth was formed due to communal nature of mughal rule. With two guru's being executed on religious grounds the conflict assumes a communal nature.
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