Sikh leaders learnt that Mahant was going to Lahore on 20 February 1921. It was decided that Sangat would go in Jathas (squads) and take charge of the Gurdwara. A meeting of the Sikh leaders was called at Gurdwara Khara Sauda on 16 February 1921 to chalk out the future course of action. This greatly angered Kartar Singh Jhabbar and others. But the Committee got the information from its own intelligence that Mahant was planning to invite the Sikh leaders at Nanakana Sahib and have them killed from hired gundas. As part of that movement, the Shiromani Committee decided of its own to meet the Mahant on 3 March 1921 to advise him to hand over the charge of gurdwara Nankana Sahib to the committee. The saga constitutes the core of the Gurdwara Reform Movement started by the Sikhs in early twentieth century.Īt the time of the massacre, there was a growing demand in Sikhism that the traditional hereditary custodians hand over their control of the gurdwaras to democratically elected committees. In political significance, it comes next only to Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 1919. The event forms an important part of Sikh history. Between 140 and 260 Sikhs were killed, including children as young as seven, by the Udasi Custodian Mahant Narayan Das and his mercenaries, in retaliation for a confrontation between him and members of the reformist Akali movement who accused him of both corruption and sexual impropriety. The Nankana massacre (or Saka Nankana) took place in Nankana Sahib gurdwara on 20 February 1921, at that time a part of the British India but today in modern-day Pakistan. The massacre took place at Gurdwara Janam Asthan, in modern-day Pakistan.
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