Bhai Taru Singh ji was born around 1720 into a Sandhu Jat family Amritsar during the reign of the Mughal Empire. He was raised as a Sikh by his widowed mother and had one sister, Tar Kaur. Bhai Taru Singh was engaged in agriculture at Poolha,[5] Tehsil Kasur, in the Lahore district during the period when Sikhs were heavily persecuted by the Mughal empire.[6] He had a small farm and grew maize.[5] Upon watching Sikh fighters save a poor girl from the clutches of the Mughal oppressors Bhai Taru Singh decided to become a Sikh and initiated into the Khalsa.
During this time, Sikh revolutionaries were plotting the overthrow of the Mughal governor of Punjab, Zakaria Khan. Bhai Taru Singh and his sister gave food and other aid to the Gursikhs (Devout Sikhs of the Guru). An informant reported them to Zakaria Khan and the two were arrested for treason. However some sources say that a Niranjania mahant tipped of the Mughal authorities with the reason being Bhai Taru Singh harboring Sikh fighters.[6] Though his sister's freedom was bribed for by the villagers, Singh refused to seek a pardon
After a period of imprisonment and torture, Bhai Taru Singh was brought before the Khan and asked him where he got his powers from to undergo all of the agony. His reply was through his Keshas (Unshorn Hair) blessed by Guru Gobind Singh. Zakaria Khan then gave him the choice of converting to Islam or having his hair cut off. According to prominent early Sikh historian Ratan Singh Bhangu, in response to having his scalp torn off Taru Singh cursed Zakaria Khan saying he would be killed by his shoes
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