Sikh History at a Touching distance- Times of India
Interview with Gurinder Singh Mann, Head of the Sikh Museum Initiative
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Anglo Sikh Virtual Museum Coverage: Times of India
Thetford and Punjab Festival kicks off
A festival celebrating the cultural link between Thetford and the Punjab has officially begun.
Saturday 7th June 2018
Reporting from Ancient Houses Museum Thetford and the Guildhall.
Numerous events, activities and celebrations will be held during the two-week Festival of Thetford and Punjab, which will run until July 21. It will also commemorate the 125 anniversary of the death of Mahara...
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More exposure needed on the Anglo Sikh Wars
This was the key message given by a panel of authors who were discussing the Sikh Empire and the Anglo Sikh Wars of 1845-1849. The often neglected wars from the nineteenth century which pitched the Sikh Empire against the East India Company were to put the British Empire in the balance. The evening was hosted by Kartar Singh of the Sikh Museum Initiative and part of the Contemporary Sikh Art e...
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Contemporary Sikh Art Exhibition Launch Video
The Contemporary Sikh Art exhibition was launched in the heart of Leicester on 11th May, initiated by the Sikh Museum Initiative and Art Sikh. The exhibition was opened by Assistant City Mayor-Councillor Manjula Sood.
The evening was hosted by the Kartar Singh (Sikh Museum Initiative), who explained the importance of having such events where the rich the history of the Sikh faith could be e...
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BBC Radio Interview: Sikh Art Exhibition and online museum launch
BBC Radio Leicester Interview
Broadcast on BBC radio Leicester on 10/05/2018
Head of the Sikh Museum Initiative, Gurinder Singh Mann is interviewed on BBC Radio Leicester regarding the launch of the Contemporary Sikh Art Exhibition (with Art Sikh) and online Sikh Museum project.
The new Anglo Sikh Virtual museum is being developed to showcase relics and artefacts from private and public col...
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Getting back Kohinoor not easy: Scholar
Gurinder Singh's Mann was asked about the kohinoor as part of his lecture on Sikh Relics and Artefacts at Khalsa College, Amritsar. Covered in Tribune India 29th April 2018.
See link to actual story: http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/getting-back-kohinoor-not-easy-scholar/565964.html
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SMI award featured in the Leicester Mercury
Anglo Sikh Wars project award was featured in the Leicester Mercury on Saturday 7th April 2018.
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Khalsa College: Anglo Sikh Wars Lecture Report
Set of books given by staff from Khalsa College to Gurinder Singh Mann
Gurinder Singh Mann delivered lecture on the different Sikh relics which were taken by the East India Company after the Anglo Sikh Wars (1845-1846) and (1848-1849) and the annexation of the Punjab in 1849. Many of these were discovered as part of the Sikh Museum Initiative’s project Anglo Sikh Wars: Battl...
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Lecture report: Sikh Relics of the Anglo Sikh Wars
Gurinder Singh Mann with Dr. Sukhdarshan Singh Khehra and Dr Paramvir Singh
Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab
26th March 2018
The Sikh Museum Initiative's Anglo Sikh Wars project has gone from strength to strength and as part of the dissemination on the research activities, Director-Gurinder Singh Mann has been in Punjab to explain the project's findings....
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Anglo SIkh Wars on the popular BBC Antiques Roadtrip
BBC Antiques Roadtrip
The Sikh Museum Initiative was filmed for the popular BBC Celebrity Antiques Roadtrip programme.
The Sikh Museum Initiative formulated the Anglo Sikh Wars project this year to shed light on the highly contested wars between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company from 1845-1849. The exhibition has led to considerable interest not just locally and nationally but, it h...
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