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Sikh Stamps : Sikh Personalities on Indian Stamps : Sikh Thematic Indian Philately www.singhsahib.com/sikh-stamps/
The Dyal Singh Trust Library was established in Lahore in 1908 in pursuance of the Will of the Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia. It was first setup in the Exchange Building, which was the residence of Sardar Dyal Singh. Later, it was shifted to the existing building. Initially, it was started with one thousand books and a grant of Rs.60,000/= provided by Sardar Dyal Singh, to meet the financial requirements of the Library.
The income from his personal property was donated to run the day to day affairs of the Library, and they were supervised by a Trust. The Library enjoyed popularity before partition. However, in 1948 it suffered a considerable loss owing to riots in Lahore and a good number of books and its property were lost /damaged.
The Library remained closed for 12 years owing to the migration of its Non-Muslim Trustees. It restarted functioning in 1964 when its administrative control was taken-over by the Evacuee Trust Property Board, Government of Pakistan, Lahore. In 1985 under a directive of the President of Pakistan, its administrative control was transferred to the Education Department, Govt. of the Punjab, but was again repatriated to the Evacuee Trust Property Board, Government of Pakistan, in 1989.
Name: Dyal Singh Trust Library
Address: 25 Nisbat Road, Lahore - 54000
City: Lahore
State/Province: Punjab (Pakistan)
Telephone: +92-42-722-9483, +92-42-722-9596
Fax: +92-42-723-3631
Email: info@dyalsingh.org.pk
Founded in: 1908
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This simple, small but graceful building was built by Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the honor of well known tourist William Moorcraft . Where he stayed during his visit to Maharaja's court in May 1820 . In recent two years Department Of Archaeology Government Of Punjab has restored it to its original form and preserved by expanding a reasonable amount.
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Back Entrance of Gurdwara Lyallpur (Faisalabad) . This Gurdwara is situated between Katchery Bazar and Rail Bazar Lyallpur (Faisalabad) Punjab
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Inside view of Gurdwara Lyallpur (Faisalabad) 1911. This Gurdwara is situated between Katchery Bazar and Rail Bazar Lyallpur (Faisalabad) West Punjab
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Fakir Khana is the private museum of the Fakir Family of Lahore. It is one of the largest private museums in South Asia. Considered a hidden treasure of art: paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, Chinese porcelain, Persian carpets and countless masterpieces of Art, it is situated in Bhati Gate, a legendary section of the Walled City of Lahore, Punjab province of Pakistan.
The Museum gives the visitor interesting information on the culture and history of Punjab. The exhibits of the museum include gifts from Queen Victoria and Maharajah Ranjit Singh to Fakir Syed Azizuddin and Fakir Syed Nooruddin who were advisors in his court. The Museum is currently managed by members of the Fakir Family. It is closed to the general public and visitations are by appointment only.
Collections within the Museum have been passed thru generations within the Fakir Family and number approx 30,000 items from British, Sikh & Mughal era. The Museum has survived several wars and the bloody India-Pakistan partition. Held within the Fakir Family were several prominent mansions (Havelis) in and around Lahore e.g. Mubarak Haveli. The art from those mansions and personal pieces collected by several prominent members of the Fakir Family have also been incorporated into the Fakir Khana collection. Historically the Family was known to possess a large collection of Jewels and Jeweled artifacts-many of which were personal gifts to the Fakir brothers by Maharajah Ranjit Singh. These items of historic and material have been looted from the museum and are known to have disappeared sometime before the India-Pakistan partition due to neglect, outright theft and lack of accountability in the past.
While a wonderland for fans of the Skih Raj and the Mughal Empire, the Musuem continues to suffer from lack of proper equipment i.e. hermetically sealed containers to house items such as manuscripts and weaponry prone to rust. It is only recently that some members of the Fakir Family have taken a more active role in the management and restoration of art and artifacts.
Gurdwara Dera Sahib is situated opposite Lahore Fort near Badshahi Mosque. This is the place where Sat Gur Arjun Dev Ji was martyred in the River Ravi facing the tortures inflicted by Chandu on 30th May 1606 AD.
The site where Guru Arjun Dev was martyred a Thara (platform) Sahib was built at by Guru Hargobind Ji in Samvat 1619 when he came to Lahore visiting Gur Asthans. Later Maharaja Ranjit Singh constructed a building of the Gurdwara which was very small
In 1909 AD construction of Parakashasthan and Manji Sahib was started for the Parakash of Guru Granth Sahib.Arrangement for daily diwan were made. Inn for the residence of the pilgrims were also costructed.In 1925 AD a local committee was constituted by Shiromni Committee in the wake of Gurdwara reform movement. In 1927 Shiromni Committee took over the charge of Gurdwara and its construction restarted on the 21st April 1930 AD which was completed on 9th Sept 1934 AD. The domes were gold-plated. Floors were cemented. The front of Gurdwara is built in marble.Parakash takes place daily. Evacuee Waqf Board has appointed two Granthis. International sangats are held every year on Shaheedi Jor Mela, Visakhi, Death Anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and birthday of Sat Gur Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
In November 1996, Govt of Pakistan built 47 roomed Mian Mir Block for visitors. Guru's langar serves round the clock
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Princess Bamba Sutherland (1869–1957) was the last member of the family that ruled the Sikh Empire in the Punjab. She returned to Lahore from her childhood in England where she was said to have "lived like an alien in her father’s kingdom".Bamba Sofia Jindan Daleep Singh was the eldest daughter of Duleep Singh Sukerchakia and his first wife Bamba Müller. She was born on 29 September 1869 in London. She led an unusual life as her father (the ruler of the Punjab) had been brought to Britain as a child under the care of the East India Company, after the close of the Second Anglo-Sikh War and the subsequent annexation of the Punjab on 29 March 1849.
Bamba's future father was forcibly separated from his mother and brought up as a Christian. When Duleep returned from burying his mother in India he married an illegitimate girl who was working at a missionary school in Cairo. He brought her back to England as his wife and they lived a life of luxury and were known to Queen Victoria. Bamba was their first daughter and was named after her mother, her maternal grandmother and her paternal grandmother respectively. The name "Bamba" means pink in Arabic.
Bamba's grandmother, Jind Kaur, suffered a poor life in India after Bamba's father was taken from her. Eventually she was allowed to rejoin her son in England. Duleep collected her after special permission was given. Duleep was allowed by the British to visit India for the second time to bury his mother's ashes after she died in Britain, although the body had to remain at Kensal Green Cemetery for nearly a year whilst this was agreed. His mother's ashes were not allowed to be buried in Lahore but had to be placed in a memorial in Bombay.
Bamba lived at Elveden Hall until her mother died from kidney failure. She and the rest of her brothers and sisters were placed in the care of Arthur Oliphant, who was her father's equerry. There she completed her schooling until she went to Somerville College at Oxford.
When Bamba decided to visit India, she placed an advertisement to hire a companion. The lady selected was a Hungarian, Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, whose father was an Austro-Hungarian government official from the Catholic upper class circles of Budapest, with the cultural interests requested. The two of them made a number of visits to India settling in Lahore and Shimla. Whilst with the princess, Marie Antoinette met and married Umrao Singh Sher-Gil and they went to live in Hungary. A notable painter, Amrita Sher-Gil, was the result. Bamba settled alone in Lahore and eventually married the Principal of King Edward Medical College in Lahore - Dr David Waters Sutherland.
In 1924 permission was finally given for her grandmother's ashes to be buried in Lahore. It was Bamba who supervised their transfer from Bombay where they had been placed when her father visited India. Her grandmother had actually died in 1863, but it had taken a year to get permission for her body to be returned to India. This was apt as her father had met Bamba's mother in Cairo on his way back from burying his mother's ashes. Bamba deposited the ashes in the memorial to Maharaja Ranjit Singh, her great grandfather.
Sutherland was widowed in Lahore when her husband died in 1939. She was reported to dream of her former glory. She was the last survivor of a royal family who should have owned the Punjab. When she finally died it was said that her funeral was arranged by United Kingdom Deputy High Commissioner in Lahore.Actually the quiet funeral with few guests was arranged by her secretary, Pir Karim Bakhsh Supra.
Sutherland died on 10 March 1957. As the last surviving member of the dynasty, Bamba left a large quantity of important historical items to her secretary, Pir Karim Bakhsh Supra of Lahore. The collection consists of eighteen paintings, fourteen watercolours, 22 paintings on ivory and a number of photos and other articles. The collection was sold to the Pakistan government and it is kept in Lahore Fort. It is known as the Princess Bamba Collection.
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In 1922 Bhagat Singh joined the National College which had been set-up by Lala Lajpat Rai at the Bradlaugh Hall Lahore for those students who did not want to study in British institutions as part of the non cooperation movement. Bhagat Singh studied in National College till 1926 and during this time became involved in many revolutionary organizations such as Naujawan Bharat Sabha and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.
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Principal Office of Khalsa College Lyallpur, after partition 1947 this college converted to Municipal College Lyallpur Punjab.
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"Dreamers of Peace" is a short film on peace & humanity.
The stills for the short film have been shot by my photographer friend KETAN MEHTA, Mumbai India.
The theme of my film is peace, humanity and brotherhood among the world citizens & the duration is just one minute 40 seconds.
One can view 'Dreamers of Peace' on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UozmJc_qTk0
Spread the message of Peace .. U need .. I need .. V all need .. PEACE.
Bhai Vasti Ram (1708-1802), was son of Bhai Bulaka Singh, who is said to have accompanied Guru Gobind Singh to the South in 1707 from where he returned with his blessings to settle in Lahore. Vasti Ram lived through the long period of persecution the Sikhs endured and their eventual rise to political power in the Punjab. He devoted himself to the study of medicine, and became famous for his skill in the use of indigenous herbs. He was deeply religious and Godfearing, and treated his patients free of charge. Stories of his healing power and of his piety spread far and wide, and he came to be credited ‘with supernatural powers. To say nothing of the common people, he was visited by important Sikh chiefs who came to seek his blessings. Among his frequent visitors were Jassa Singh Ahluvalia and the Bharigi sard’di’s, Lahina Singh, Gu[jar Singh, Ganda Singh and Jhanda Singh. Maharaja Ranjit Singh himself became an ardent devotee early in Ins career.
He often used to say tliat it was due to Bhai Vasti Ram’s blessings that he came out successful in the battle ofBhasin (1800), which confirmed him in the possession of Lahore. Bhai Vasti Ram died in 1802 at the ripe age of 94. A marble samadh was raised near the Lahore Fort at the spot where he was cremated. Maharaja Ranjit Singh used to visit it on the occasion of his death anniversary. The structure, like Jain Mandir and many others, faced the wrath of angry mob after the disturbing Babri Mosque incident in 1992.
Samadh of Bhai Wasti ram at Tixali Gate near Shahi Qila Lahore, Pakistan is a protected monument under Protected Archaelogical sites and Monuments in Panjab Province by Pakistan Govt. There is also a bazar named as Dhab Wasti Ram in Amritsar city in Indian State of Panjab.
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The man in the picture is Shaheed Bhagat Singh
(the word shaheed means "martyr")
At the tender age of 13 Bhagat Singh started freedom struggle by joing Mahatam Gandhis Non Co-operation movement and burnt school books and foreign clothes which were made in Britain.He was hanged to death by brits in 1931 .He was of 23 years of age when he was hanged.
This is a man ,which every kid of India wants to be and I beleive this is the best salute to this hero on remembering him on India's 59th Independence day.
Complete History of Saheed is here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagat_Singh
Jai Hind !!
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Hazuri Bagh is a garden in Lahore, Pakistan, bounded by the Lahore Fort (east side), Badshahi Mosque (west side), the Samadhi of Ranjit Singh (north side) and the Roshnai Gate (south side). In the center stands the Hazuri Bagh Baradari, built by Ranjit Singh.
The Hazuri Bagh is a small enclosure between the Alamgiri Gate of the Lahore Fort and eastern gate of the Badshahi Mosque. This garden was built by Maharajah Ranjit Singh in 1813 to celebrate the capture of the famous Koh-i-Noor Diamond from Shah Shujah of Afghanistan. The Serai Alamgiri formerly stood here.
The garden was planned and built under the supervision of Faqir Azizuddin in the traditional Mughal style layout. After its completion, it is said, Maharajah Ranjit Singh, at the suggestion of Jamadar Khushhal Singh, ordered that marble be removed from various mausoleums of Lahore to construct a baradari (pavilion) here. This task was given to Khalifa Nooruddin. Elegant carved marble pillars support the baradari’s delicate cusped arches. The central area, where Ranjit Singh held court, has a mirrored ceiling. Both the garden and the baradari, originally a 45-foot, three-storey square with a basement approached by fifteen steps, suffered extensive damage during the fratricidal Sikh wars and was only reclaimed and laid out according to the original plan during the British period. On 19 July 1932, the uppermost story collapsed and was never reconstructed.
Every Sunday afternoon, people gather in the gardens to hear reciters recite traditional Punjabi Qisse, such as Heer Ranjha and Sassi Punnun, and other Punjabi Sufi poetry.
The tomb of Muhammad Iqbal lies across from the garden outside of the Badshahi Mosque.