Acknowledgements
The online exhibition and the wider Sikh Heritage Project is a collaborative effort. The University of Manchester Library would like to thank the Sikh community, in particular those at the Sri Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara (Upper Chorlton Road), the Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Gurdwara (Monton Street), Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara (Derby Street), Sri Guru Harksrishan Sahib Ji Gurdwara (Sherborne Street), Dashmesh Sikh Temple (Heywood Street)- and the following individuals, teams and institutions for their support:
Community Consultant
Gurtek Singh
Sikh Heritage Project Team
- Zsófi Buda
- Jane Gallagher
- John Hodgson
- Inbal Livne
- John McCrory
- Owen Mills
- Maisie Proctor
- Jamie Robinson
- Jo Robson
- Helen Scott
- Maya Sharma
- Laura Snow
- Emily Tan
Sikh Digital Exhibition Text
- Maisie Proctor
- Owen Mills
Sikh Digital Exhibition Working Group
- John McCrory
- Owen Mills
- Maisie Proctor
- Emily Tan
Additional Material
- Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
- Kashi House
- Manchester Art Gallery
- Pothi Seva
- University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums
Further Resources
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust
Part of the University of Manchester Library, the RACE Centre holds contemporary collections related to migration, global majority perspectives, and material related to the Sikh community in Manchester.
- Sikh Family History Project Revisited Archive
- Memories of Partition Project Archive
- RACE Archive Blog
- Sikh Digital Heritage Project: Community Digitisation (ongoing)
South Asia Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library holds internationally significant collections of South Asian manuscripts.
Main Library, University of Manchester
The University of Manchester Library is one of the largest academic libraries in the United Kingdom. We welcome over three million students, researchers and visitors annually.
Manchester Art Gallery Collections
Explore Manchester Art Gallery’s holdings of over 6600 objects, including paintings, works on paper, ceramics, glass and sculpture:
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Follow the links in the exhibition sections ‘Warfare and the Sikh Empire’ and ‘Visualising Sikh Culture’ for our object highlights.
Manchester Central Library
Manchester Central Library is home to the city's archives and history collections.
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The Documentary Photographic Archive (DPA) includes over 100,000 images from family albums and views from across Greater Manchester which capture all aspects of the people and places of the city region, including the Sikh community.
Explore the Documentary Photographic Archive
The 1947 Partition Archive
The 1947 Partition Archive is a crowdsourced community-based archive and public history organization, empowering the documentation, preservation and sharing of oral histories of Partition witnesses and survivors.
View the 1947 Partition Archive
South Asia Gallery, Manchester Museum
The South Asia Gallery, a British Museum partnership, presents a compelling, contemporary take on South Asian and British Asian culture. It is the first permanent gallery in the UK to celebrate the experiences and contribution of the South Asian diaspora, and it displays world-class material from the British Museum alongside the best of South Asian collections in Manchester.