Patiala: Professor Harbans Singh Department of Encyclopaedia of Sikhism of Punjabi University, Patiala, organized a Special Lecture in the university few days back.
S. Gurinder Singh Mann, Director of the Sikh Museum Initiative in the UK, presented his lecture on the topic Sikh Relics and Artifacts in the UK.
Dr. Jaspal Singh, Vice-Chancellor presided over the Lecture. Mann explored the importance of relics to the Sikh faith and how the manuscripts of Guru Granth Sahib, Hukumnamas, Shastars and other objects played an important part in understanding the transmission of the religion. He explained how different Sikh relics made their way to the UK.
S. Mann focussed on the Anglo-Sikh Wars and how after the annexation of the Punjab, the Governor General Lord Dalhousie auctioned off Sikh relics and how the rest were despatched to the UK.