Former Rajya Sabha MP Sardar Tarlochan Singh has exhorted British Sikh members of Parliament and peers to commission authoritative research into the scattered treasures of Maharaja Ranjit Singh to be appropriately catalogued and preserved at a museum for future generations.
The former chairman of the National Commission for Minorities was addressing an event hosted by the British Sikh Association in his honour at the House of Lords complex in London on Monday evening.
The 92-year-old campaigner pointed to media reports which had revealed a colonial era file that documented some of the many treasures belonging to the 19th century ruler of the Sikh Empire in India. “A list of the treasures from Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s toshakhana should be released our Sikh heritage”. “Historical records have mentioned that Guru Gobind sacred plume, which adorned his turban, was kept in the toshakhana and Maharaja Ranjit Singh used to touch it every day.