Chandu Shah

[9][10][11] According to one local Lahori version of the events, Chandu Shah paid the emperor to obtain custody of the Guru to personally torture him at his house.

[14] It has been argued by Pashaura Singh that Jahangir shifted blame for the execution of the Guru solely on Chandu Shah as a means to escape responsibility himself.

[15] Chandu Shah had been survived by his son, Karam Chand, who in 1621 had been responsible for instigating the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan against Guru Hargobind, leading to the Early Mughal-Sikh Wars and the Battle of Rohilla, much as his father before him had instigated Emperor Jahangir against Guru Arjan.

Pashaura Singh has written that the meta-narrative surrounding Chandu Shah was a ploy by the Mughal Empire to absolve Jehangir and its administrators and shift the blame to the Guru's enemy.

Positive portrayals of Jehangir in Sikh chronicles in the 18th and 19th century, he believes, are a testament to the effectiveness of the Mughal concocted narrative.