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What significant Sikh literature was lost when the sikh reference library was burnt and looted in 1984 by the Indian government

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Also have'nt many priceless items also gone missing. I think one item was something which can't have a financial value attached to it as it's priceless / can't be valued, donated by maharaja Ranjit Singh to Harmandir Sahib whcih was gifted to him by the Nizam of Hydrabad? Amongst other priceless artefacts and irreplacable transcripts, which are valued even more as they were written by our Gurus and other great Sikh personalities.

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is there any idea were the indian government took all these items???

Hate to think but logically thinking all written irreplacable manuscripts esp. of our Gurus were most probably destroyed to add insult to injury. Other valuables, who knows some senior ministers / army staff maybe made some cash by selling?

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Indian government did took many priceless treasure from darbar sahib.

SGPC filed case in high court few years ago and it was known news in media but however no news came out about the court decision.

Judge tossed case because army did manage to send *some* items and manuscripts back and all paperwork were signed by the sgpc officer claiming that they got the items back from army. Army produced that document in court and current sgpc was baffled and shocked to know that these sgpc officers took the item but never handed over the items. They quickly buried this under the carpet. This only means that those officers either sold it or kept it hiding. Signatures were of manjit Singh Calcutta and dilgeer.

It is known talk that dilgeer is holding some very old purataan manuscripts and few o his buddies are aware of that but what we need to know is that, how did he manage to get ahold of purataan bir?

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Without our own country, we don't have enough power or resources to get back our historic manuscripts and looted treasure including kohinoor diamond.

All thanks to wh McLeod who compiled the list of Sikh reference library and not many ppl were aware of that. Without the list we would be total clueless.

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enough power or resources to get back our historic manuscripts and looted treasure including kohinoor diamond.

Koh-i-noor no longer exists in the form it was taken from Punjab by the British. Also others also have as much claim to it as us, including the British. Why? Well because it was taken by force from many, originated in South India the mughals got it. Nadir Shah took it from Delhi, After his assaination his general Abdali got hold of it. It was Abdali's grandsons wife who promised it to Maharaja Ranjit Singh in lieu of payment for his help for resucing her husband from prison. It was gifted to Punjab by coersion as was the case with the handing over to the British.

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