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Amandeep Madra
Amandeep Madra is a founding member of UKPHA. With Parmjit Singh, he has co-authored ‘Warrior Saints: Three centuries of the Sikh Military Tradition’ (London: IB Tauris, 1999). This was followed by another collaborative work ‘“Sicques, Tigers, or Thieves”: Eyewitness accounts of the Sikhs (1606-1809)’ (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Amandeep has contributed articles to the ‘New Dictionary of National Biography’ (OUP, 2004), providing articles for Maharajah Duleep Singh and Udham Singh. Amandeep has lectured extensively in the UK and USA on Sikh arts and heritage as well as issues of sustaining Sikh audiences.
By Amandeep Madra on August 16, 2010
Just days after it was inundated by flood water, the centuries-old Gurudwara Pathar Sahib was full of Sikh and Buddhist devotees praying for those lost in the calamity. Local tradition says that the gurdwara was first constructed in 1517 and was for centuries a Buddhist shrine to ‘lLama Nanak. Today it is a Sikh shrine [...]
Posted in Cultural | Tagged gurdwara, Leh, Restoration, Sikh |
By Amandeep Madra on August 11, 2010
The much-hyped United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Master Plan for Tourism Development across Punjab has been at a standstill for a month now. Its Chief Technical Adviser and the team leader, Roger Goodacre, complaining of a “suffocating” work atmosphere, decided to opt out of the project last month. Even the national coordinator of the [...]
Posted in Architectural, Cultural | Tagged Anandpur Sahib, Khalsa Heritage Complex, tourism |
By Amandeep Madra on August 8, 2010
The sheets of water which devastated Leh town and its outskirts also considerably damaged one of the Sikhs’ holy shrine, Pathar Sahib. The historical gurdwara, which enshrines the memory of the first Sikh master Guru Nanak Dev’s visit to the then, nearly unsurmountable region about 500 years back, is located about 25km away from the [...]
Posted in Architectural, Material | Tagged damage, floods, gurdwara, Guru Nanak, Leh, Sikh |
By Amandeep Madra on June 21, 2010
Ferozepur : The crumbling building of the historical Anglo-Sikh War Memorial and Museum on the banks of Ferozeshah canal is being repaired these days. After more than two decades, the Punjab Heritage and Tourism Development Board has finally sanctioned funds — a total of Rs 4.07 crore — for the renovation of historical monuments in [...]
Posted in Architectural, Cultural | Tagged Anglo Sikh, Anglo Sikh Wars, British, Ferozpur, Restoration, Sikh |
By Amandeep Madra on June 14, 2010
Often called the ‘Manchester of India’, few people – both residents and outsiders – know that the city has a large number of significant historical structures that can be major tourist attractions but instead languish in a state of neglect. One such noteworthy example is Christ Church, which dates back to the 1830s. Adjacent to [...]
Posted in Architectural, Material | Tagged christ church preserving, conservation, Ludhiana, Mughal, Sikh |
By Amandeep Madra on January 29, 2010
In 2005 we reported on the sad state of Manauli fort. A recent article in The Tribune by Rajmeet Singh reports that at last the Mohali district administration has paved the way for preservation of the historical Manauli fort. Located few kilometers from Mohali, the Mughal fort had been decaying for lack of preservation. After [...]
Posted in Architectural | Tagged conservation, destruction, Kapur Singh, Manauli, Sikh |
By Amandeep Madra on January 10, 2010
Gurpreet K. Maini writes a review of India’s leading heritage conservation NGO, on its 25th anniversary in the Sunday Tribune. If today graffiti is diminishing our monuments, particularly the unlisted ones, there are fewer ‘pan’ splurges; they are no longer open-air urinals or defecating hubs, we owe it to the pivotal catalyst INTACH, a concept [...]
Posted in Architectural, Cultural, Material | Tagged conservaion, India, INTACH |
By Amandeep Madra on January 4, 2010
A former Project Director at The Smithsonian’s prestigious National Museum of American History, George Jacob, has been named director of the Khalsa Heritage Complex in Anandpur Sahib reports the Midland Daily News. The Khalsa Heritage Complex is one of the largest museum complex in India currently in advanced stages of construction. Smithsonian trained Jacob, an [...]
Posted in Cultural, Material | Tagged Anandpur Sahib, Khalsa Heritage Complex, Museum, Smithsonian |
By Amandeep Madra on January 4, 2010
Gurdeep Singh Mann writes in the Tribune that the Haveli of Todar Mal is to be restored by the SGPC. This would make it one of the last pieces of Punjab’s Sikh built heritage that is extant and is now in the hands of the body that has been responsible for most the state’s worst [...]
Posted in Architectural | Tagged conservation, destruction, SGPC, Sikh, Sirhind, Todar mal, Wazir Khan |
By Amandeep Madra on January 3, 2010
A JACKET with ancestral links to Norfolk which was expected to fetch between £60,000 and £80,000 at auction failed to sell. Items once treasured by the Maharajah Duleep Singh, who bought the Elveden Estate near Brandon in 1863, went under the hammer at Lyons and Turnbull auction house in Edinburgh. A pair of crimson shoes [...]
Posted in Material | Tagged Auction, Duleep Singh, Edinburgh |