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 [...]
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