Sikhs and the British: The Charter Act and the beginnings of the missionary movement.

Sikhs and the British: The Charter Act and the beginnings of the missionary movement. Sikh Historian Gurinder Singh Mann, discusses the relatively unknown Charter Act which introduced the Christian missionary movement into India. In my recent TV interview regarding the British and the Sikhs, I referred to the…

THIS SITE IS NOW CALLED www.sikhscholar.co.uk

I have decided to rename this site to www.sikhscholar.co.uk, my other work and sites which i have connections with can be seen at wwww.gsmann.com.I was finding that people were getting in contact with me through my various projects so i decided to put the portfolio sites on one…

Dr Leyden Project at the Panjab Research Group

  Panjab Research Group lectures : 29/10/2011. Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Linton Road  Oxford OX2 6UDThe Punjab Research Group is a forum for academics in the UK to showcase their research. I was invited to talk about the Dr Leyden project. I explained the purpose and reasons…

British and the Sikhs: The treaty of Duleep Singh and the surrender of the Koh-i-noor

One of the documents I discussed on the Sikh Channel Interview:The following is the treaty between the British and the Lahore Government. Dated 29th March 1849. * It essentially made Duleep Singh a ward of the British.* made the Lahore Government pay the expenses of the Anglo Sikh Wars and all…