Anglo Sikh Wars on BBC Asian network

BBC Asian network interview by Nomia Iqbal with Gurinder Singh Mann and Amarpal Singh Sidhu. The Anglo Sikh Wars exhibition was discussed together with the importance of the Anglo Sikh Wars. Click on the link below.   Exhibition runs until 4th June 2017 www.anglosikhwars.com www.sikhmuseum.org.uk  

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The Second Anglo-Sikh War lecture

The Second Anglo-Sikh War Lecture The Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA) 11th January 2017 Mr Amarpal Sidhu, Military Historian, will talk on the Second Anglo-Sikh war, a a conflict no-one expected. In April 1848, two British officers were killed by a mutinous garrison in the southern Punjabi city of

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The Anglo Sikh Wars: The Battle of Ferozeshah 171st anniversary lecture held at Newarke Houses Museum

A special lecture took place in Leicester on friday 9th December. It was part of a series of events undertaken by the Sikh Museum Initiative (SMI) related to the Anglo Sikh Wars which took place between the Sikh empire and the East India Company between 1845 and 1849. Daljit Singh

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Review of The Second Anglo-Sikh War

The long-awaited treatise on the so called ” Anglo-Sikh Wars ” Amarpal’s “The Second Anglo-Sikh War ” makes irresistible reading.These last nearly 170 years since the Sikh empire was effectively finished for ever there have been hundreds of books and in times to come there will be many more ..yet

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