Dramatic Sikh Art

Powerful events which shaped the course of Sikh history
  • 1675

    Guru Tegh Bahadur’s Time

    Guru Tegh Bahadur laid down his life in order to protect religious freedom for all India which was under the oppressive rule of Mughal emperor Aurunzeb, who wished to convert the entire land to Islam. According to the Guru, living a truly spiritua...... Read More
  • Battle of Anandpur 1700

    Bhai Bachittar Singh (Tonal)

    Bhai Bachittar Singh, a warrior under Guru Gobind Singh, was a brave hero who drove a spear into the head of an elephant at the Battle of Anandpur. Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji and a small number of Sikhs were defending their position in Lohgarh fort ...... Read More
  • Battle of Anandpur 1700

    Bachittar Singh – Saint Soldier

    Bhai Bachittar Singh, a warrior under Guru Gobind Singh, was a brave hero who drove a spear into the head of an elephant at the Battle of Anandpur. Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji and a small number of Sikhs were defending their position in Lohgarh fort ...... Read More
  • Battle of Muktsar 1705

    Mai Bhago and the Chaali Muktey

    Mai Bhag Kaur (Mai Bhago) was the inspiration behind the bravery of the martyrs known as the Chaali Muktey – the Liberated Forty – who died in the Battle of Muktsar (1705). She is best remembered as a valiant military commander and one of the elit...... Read More
  • Battle of Chumkaur 1705

    Baba Jujhar Singh

    Sahibzada Jujhar Singh Ji Second eldest son of the tenth Master, Guru Gobind Singh Ji. At the battle of Chumkaur on 6 Dec 1705, Guru Gobind Singh, his two son’s Baba Ajit Singh and Baba Jujhar Singh and 40 loyal Sikhs defended themselves in a smal...... Read More
  • 1705

    Baba Ajit Singh – The Khalsa Charge

    The Story Sahibzada Ajit Singh Ji The eldest son of the tenth Master, Guru Gobind Singh Ji. In the prolonged siege of Anandpur in 1705, Sahibzada Ajit Singh displayed his qualities of courage and steadfastness. When, at last, Anandpur was vacated ...... Read More
  • 1705

    Chhotey Sahibzadey

    Chhotey Sahibzadey The two youngest sons of the tenth Master, Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh were the youngest of Guru Gobind Singh’s sons, aged only 7 and 5 when they and their grandmother Mata Gujri were imprisoned by the t...... Read More
  • 1715

    Banda Singh Bahadur - Sava Lakh Khalsa

    “I will tell you, whenever men become so corrupt and wicked as to relinquish the path of equity and to abandon themselves to all kinds of excesses, then the Providence never fails to raise up a scourge like me to chastise a race so depraved; When...... Read More
  • 1753

    Baba Deep Singh Shaheed

      Baba Deep Singh ji is one of the most honored martyrs known to Sikh history and his life is intimately woven with the tenth master, Guru Gobind Singh ji. He belonged to the order of Akali Nihungs whose origins are ascribed to Guru Gobind Singh i...... Read More
  • First World War

    1914 - 1918


    Stand on Guard for Thee

    In “Stand on Guard for Thee” artist Kanwar Singh focuses on the role of Sikhs during World War One. Sikh soldiers participated in most of the key battles of the Great War, whether in the trenches of France, or the deserts of Mesopotamia. To mark t...... Read More
  • 1995

    Jaswant Singh Khalra – The Witness

    This painting chronicles the life's work of human rights activist Shaheed Jaswant Singh Khalra and the events of the bloody decade (1984 -1995) in Punjab. It depicts how government forces operated with complete impunity to end the Khalistan moveme...... Read More