Biography
Tara Singh Wan was an eighteenth-century Sikh martyr. He was from the village of Wan, also known as Wan Tara Singh and Dall-Wan now in Tarn Taran district tehsil Bhikhiwind of the Eastern Punjab. After humbling the faujdar of Patti, he was killed while resisting a Mughal army dispatched by Zakaria Khan. Thus, Tara Singh was part of one of the first recorded Sikh military actions in the post-Banda Singh Bahadur period. He is remembered by Sikhs as one of their notable martyrs of the 18th century.