Ramdas in Amritsar district, near the border, is where Baba Buddha Ji farmed and died in 1631. It was founded by him or named for Guru Ram Das Ji, and the accounts differ.
Baba Buddha Ji installed five Gurus, was the first granthi of the Harmandir, supervised the digging of the Amritsar sarovar, and trained Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji in arms. He spans from Guru Nanak Dev Ji to Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji, more than a century.
Gurdwara Tap Asthan Baba Buddha Ji is at Ramdas and Bir Baba Buddha Sahib, the forest where he grazed cattle, is nearby at Thatta.
Ramdas is a border village now, a few kilometres from the fence, in the belt where cultivation runs up against the wire.
The oldest continuous personal link in Sikh history ends in a village most Punjabis could not place on a map.
The span is checkable in outline and not in detail. The dates given for his birth make him old enough to have met the first Guru as a boy and old enough to install the sixth as a very old man, and the tradition is consistent about that across sources which disagree with each other about a great deal else.
The bir at Ramdas is a stretch of preserved woodland attached to the shrine, one of the few pieces of old vegetation left in the Majha.
The village is inside the border belt, which means restricted access, no industry, and a population that has been leaving for decades.