Bandā Banda Singh BahādurBahaduralso called Lachman DāsDas, Lachman Dev, or Madho DāsDas  ( born 1670 , Rājauri, India—died  Rajauri [India]—died June 1716 , Delhi )  first Sikh military leader to wage an offensive war against the Mughal rulers of India, thereby temporarily extending Sikh territory.

As a youth, he early decided to be a samāna samana (ascetic), and until 1708, when he became a disciple of Gurū Guru Gobind Singh, he was known as Madho DāsDas. After his initiation into the Sikh brotherhood, he took the name Bandā Banda Singh Bahādur Bahadur and became a respected, if not popular, general; his cold and impersonal character did not endear him to his men.

Bandā Banda Singh set out in 1709 to attack the Mughals, conquering large tracts of territory. His pillaging and massacring in the Deccan area led the Mughal rulers finally to move against him in force. After an eight-month siege, the fortress town of Gurdas Nangal fell to the Mughals in 1715. Bandā Banda Singh and his men were taken as prisoners to Delhi, where every day for six months a few of his men were taken out and executed. When his own turn came, Bandā Banda Singh stated to the Muslim judge that this fate befell him justly because he had failed his beloved Gurū Guru Gobind Singh. He was tortured to death with red-hot irons.