The Truth Of The Kalgi Taken To Punjab

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This is the same helmet decoration that was on display in a Canadian Gurdwara for a while. It just reinforces the need to to blindly accept eveything people claim about such artefacts.

It was widely known in the UK that this Kalgi had nothing to do with Guru Ji but people in Canada and then Punjab were made to believe otherwise.

CHANDIGARH: The mystery over the authenticity of the tenth Sikh Guru’s Kalgi (plume) seems to have deepened as the UK-based family that is supposed to have donated it to the SGPC has stated that it had at no point claimed that the plume was that of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru.

‘‘At no point have we claimed that the Kalgi is that of Guru Gobind Singh Ji. We do believe that it dates from the 1800s (Guru Gobind Singh died in 1708), although we have no documentary support for this and we are not experts in the field,’’ said Atam Singh Sandhu, elder son of late Chanan Singh Chan, an eminent UK-based collector of Sikh heritage.

In an interview to TOI, the family has also alleged that the Kalgi was taken to India without informing them, after it was handed over to one of the SGPC members who wanted to get a chemical test done on it in Cambridge, UK.

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