KASHI HOUSEA rare painting of one of the most important figures in Anglo-Sikh history has been identified in the collections of one of London’s premiere museums.
The rare work of art, which dates from c. 1805, shows Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), the diminutive but powerful Sikh king, in conference with a Maratha chief, Holkar Rao.
Defeated by the [...]
What is Kashi House?
Kashi is Varanasi, in Indian myth the “city of light” - an allusion to the city’s historical status as a centre of learning, literature and culture. What most people don’t known is that a second Kashi was founded in Punjab by Guru Gobind Singh in 1706. Drawing inspiration from the Guru’s scholarly [...]
Hazoor Sahib’s own rich story has, until now, been somewhat lost in the vast history of India. In The Master’s Presence: The Sikhs of Hazoor Sahib, the new book by Nidar Singh Nihang and Parmjit Singh, firmly gives it the place that it deserves. Hazoor Sahib, which literally means “Master’s Presence”, is the shrine built over [...]
Over the coming months, the authors of In the Master’s Presence will be signing copies and talking about their superbly illustrated book covering 300 years of Sikh history at select branches of one of the leading booksellers in the UK.
Waterstone’s are offering £10 off the recommended retail price for anybody buying a copy on [...]
Leicester, 4 - 5 April
Shastar Vidya at the Martial Arts Festival 2009
Nidar Singh Nihang, author of In the Master’s Presence: The Sikhs of Hazoor Sahib, will be demonstrating Shastar Vidya to martial artists from around the world at this year’s Martial Arts Festival to be held in Leicester.
Shastar Vidya (“science of weapons”) is the traditional [...]
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Kashi House: the beginning of something big…
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A must-have Sikh history book
“World class scholarship and [...]