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Amandeep Madra
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 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 acquiring [...]
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 which [...]
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 internationally [...]
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 which were [...]
Posted in Material | Tagged Auction, Duleep Singh, Edinburgh
By Amandeep Madra on November 10, 2009
The latest documentary from Navdeep Kandola tells the largely untold story of Sikh fighter pilots. The Royal Air Force Museum presents an exclusive opportunity to view a brand new documentary on Sikh fighter pilots on Sunday 22rd November at 2pm.
Posted in blog, Cultural | Tagged film, RAF, Sikh
By Amandeep Madra on October 28, 2009
It’s really heartening to see that ASHT has put together a bespoke two day training programme in partnership with the Victoria & Albert Museum, in the subject of preservation. This is vital for private collectors who have become some of the richest sources of extant Sikh heritage left in the world. Delivered by experts from [...]
Posted in blog, Cultural | Tagged ASHT, conservation, Manuscript, V&A Museum
By Amandeep Madra on October 20, 2009
The policy was strikingly simple: invade Afghanistan, overthrow a factious theocratic regime in Kabul, install a new western-friendly ruler, maintain civil discipline with an occupying force for an indeterminate time and retreat victorious with a new strategic ally in place.
Posted in blog, Cultural
By Amandeep Madra on October 17, 2009
Gurinder Singh Mann is a scholar for whom I have a great deal of regard. In a new series of articles published by The Sikh Foundation, Gurinder Singh Mann talks of his decade of Sikh studies at University College Santa Barbara, the establishment of the Centre of Sikh and Punjab Studies and the now well-established [...]
Posted in blog | Tagged Gurinder Mann, Sikh, sikh studies
By Amandeep Madra on October 13, 2009
One of the most iconic symbols of Ranjit Singh’s kingdom is the golden throne, now safely housed in London’s V&A museum. It is on permanent display on the museum and arguably is one of their most important objects. Over the next few months the Golden Throne will form part of the dazzling Maharaja exhibition that [...]
Posted in blog, Material | Tagged London, Ranjit Singh, V&A Museum
