yeah i'm also glad the british travelled all that way just to kill tens of thousands of our ancestors and make others have control of the panth's destiny. :rolleyes:
before the first anglo-sikh war, a british commandeer (Harding, if i remember correctly), said: 'if we seperate the sikhs from their guru, they will be easily beaten and forever in our control'. now that phrase is as true today as it was back then. by keeping us away from our heritage, they are keeping us from our Guru ji. but at the same time, if they give the stuff back, what is to say they havent changed it? god knows what they would have done to the Sau Sakhi. most of our problems stem from our loss to the british and our subsequent division into factions and then dispersing around the world. unfortunately we are in a similar state to how the jews where after the roman empire blasted their Judea into oblivion (though the armies of the khalsa raj were a lot better at fighting the british than the jews were at fighting the romans). some people even compare what Sant Bhindranwale ji did to what jesus tried (the real story of jesus, not the biblical nonsense). we face dark days and we are in danger of changing beyond recognition. some fools think sikhi will never change...my response is that if our enemies wish to, they can make us believe any lie.
having said that, as we are not in control of our own country, we arent able to do anything. one idea is some kind of international sikh musuem (near the un building in new york, or in a cheaper location near new york?) where we store these artifacts and create some kind of taksal to study our heritage, and find means of recovering the rest of the stuff these ******** stole off us.