Bachchans' Sikh Ancestry?

Abhishek Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan (b1942)

Teji Bachchan (b1914)

Khem Singh Bedi (b1832)

Guru Nanak (b1469)

The news of Mrs. Teji Bachchan's demise on December 21, 2007 has been widely covered in Indian media. That the eldest Mrs. Bachchan, wife of Allahabad's Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was a Sikh woman born Teji Suri in 1914 and from Lyallpur (Faisalabad), Pakistan is known.

However there maybe more to the Sikh connection in the Bachchan family than that. In a potential revelation putting Abhishek Bachchan as a blood descendant of Sikh precursor Guru Nanak Dev, an unconfirmed report has been brought to note that the 93 year old Teji Bachchan was the great grand daughter of renowned 19th century marksman and aristocrat turned founder of the Sikh Sabha, Khem Singh Bedi (b1832 - 1905).

Khem Singh Bedi however was the 14th descendant of son of Guru Nanak Dev, Lakshmi Das. Guru Nanak had one other son named Sri Chand.

This would imply that in part Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan, tracing 18th and 19th generation respectively, are among the few surviving descendants of the Sikh prophet himself.

Guru Nanak himself was born into a Hindu family in 1469 before going on to introduce the values of Sikhism.