Artifact
Possessions of Bhai Maharaj Singh
also Bhai Maharaj Singh Collection
Bracelets, a small dagger, a needle and thread, a conch shell, a seal ring and a manuscript taken from him on his arrest.[Web][Web]
- Date
- Seized c. 1849
- Held by
- British Library
- Location
- London
- Provenance
- Documented
- Status: Held
- An undated article on the Academy of the Punjab site says the Library holds them. A conference abstract on Sikh Scholar quotes an inscription on his manuscript. No British Library record was opened.
Bhai Maharaj Singh was a leader of resistance during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. The article says he was exiled to Singapore and passed away there in 1856.
The objects and four handwritten Gurmukhi manuscripts came to a British national collection in the 1920s from a descendant of the officer who arrested him, the article says. The abstract quotes a note on one manuscript dating its capture to 28 December 1849 at Jalandhar.
Bhai Maharaj Singh holding court, in a 19th-century painting reproduced in a Singapore Sikh publication. Its exact date and maker are not known.
Unknown, 19th century. Public domain. Source
