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From three pages of the 'Gurshabad Rattan Prakash Mahan Kosh by Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha.

On page no. 433 he has mentioned the service of 'Gangu' in the house of Sat Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Saying he was a sewadar in the Guru ka Langer in Anandpur Sahib. He came to the court of the ninth Nanak, that is Sat Guru Teg Bahadur Ji alongwith the group of Kashmiri Pandits. He was about 25 years at that time. He eturned to Kashmir and later returned to the court and service of Sat Guru Gobind Rai after five years. He was blessed with a son he named Raj Kaul who was raised by his grand parents in Kashmir.

When Satguru Gobind Singh Ji left Sri Anandpur Sahib in 1704, Gangu took the lost Mata Gujar Kaur, alias Mata Gujri Ji, and two younger sons of Satguru Gobind Singh Ji, to his village of Kherhi (where he and wife had migrated from Kashmir). After offering them shelter (as Hindus say , a guest is to be treated like a God) he went to the athorities, his three guests were arrested, and he was given a reward from the Governor of Sirhind. He and his wife were killed in 1710. Gangu and his wife were later killed by Banda Singh's army.

This is the true explanation about Gangu who proved himself unworthy of the trust the Guru's family had placed in him not only as the families cook, but in their most urgent time of need. His treachery sealed the fate of the Guru's mother and the two youngest Lions, the Sahibzadis; the youngest Shaheedan who held firm to their fate, freely chosing death rather than bending to the swords of tryanny.

In a twist of fate Gangu may have been an ancestor of the family of Kashmiri Pandits who changed their name to reflect their receicving a gift of a jagir which included a canal, for which the family name was changed, as the 'Nehru' family records say.