Guru Har Krishan

Guru Har Krishan (1656–1664) was the eighth Sikh Guru and its youngest, placed on the gaddi at the age of five in 1661 after his father Guru Har Rai disowned his elder son Ram Rai for altering scripture to please Aurangzeb.

In 1664 the emperor summoned the child through Raja Jai Singh to Delhi, apparently intending to replace him with Ram Rai. Har Krishan contracted smallpox there and the meeting was cancelled; he died on 30 March, before his eighth birthday. His last words, Baba Bakala, guided the Sikhs to his grand-uncle Guru Tegh Bahadur as the ninth Guru.