Parmjit Singh is an independent researcher specialising in the photographic history of 19th-century Punjab. His previous publications include Warrior Saints: Three Centuries of the Sikh Military Tradition (I.B. Tauris, 1999) and ‘Sicques, Tigers, or Thieves’: Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
He is a founding member of the UK Punjab Heritage Association (www.ukpha.org), an [...]
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PARMJIT SINGH
February 9, 2009 – 11:06 am
NIDAR SINGH NIHANG
February 9, 2009 – 11:05 am
Nidar Singh Nihang, a British-born Sikh, is the sole-surviving master of India’s lost art of war known as shastar vidya (”science of weapons”). This traditional system of armed and unarmed combat traces its roots back thousands of years. Indian warriors through the ages have strived to master its vast repertoire of devastating battlefield techniques, and [...]