Chamkaur is the battle Sikhs describe as the most unequal in their history and the one with the strangest ending. Guru Gobind Singh, driven out of Anandpur after a promised safe passage was broken, held a mud haveli with about forty men against an imperial force. He sent out his two eldest sons and watched them die. When only five Sikhs remained they constituted themselves as the Panj Piare and, invoking the authority Guru Gobind Singh had himself given the Khalsa, ordered him to leave and preserve the Panth. He obeyed. Sikhs cite this constantly as the moment the Guru placed himself under the community's command, and it is the doctrinal basis for the Panj Piare's authority over any individual Sikh today — including the authority the Akal Takht exercises when it summons a politician.