 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, Tehsil Kasur, in the Lahore district during the period when Sikhs were heavily persecuted by the Mughal empire.