Bhindranwale was born on 2 June 1947, as Jarnail Singh Brar to a Jat Sikh family, in the village of Rode,^[in Moga District (then a part of Faridkot District),located in the region of Malwa.The grandson of Sardar Harnam Singh Brar, his father, Joginder Singh Brar was a farmer and a local Sikh leader, and his mother was Nihal Kaur. Jarnail Singh was the seventh of eight siblings of seven brothers and one sister.^] He was put into a school in 1953 at the age of 6 but he dropped out of school five years later to work with his father on the farm