Truth, Equality & Justice are at the very heart of what it means to be a Sikh.
In 1710, one man led a band of heroic soldiers to march against the might of an empire to uphold these same values. Outnumbered, they successfully persuaded the tyrrany to relinquish control and brought into being a harmonious State.
seminar series Over the past 25 years, the SEC has worked with numerous academics, historians, researchers and scholars to organise significant seminars and lectures where vital issues can be publicly discussed.
To celebrate the tri-centenary
of the establishment of the Khalsa
Republic, we are continuing in this rich tradition with a number of seminars
that celebrate the victory of Banda Singh Bahadur and the Sikhs in bringing freedom from tyranny. For more information about the seminars or to purchase a ticket for an upcoming seminar, click on the links below. A new window will open to either a PDF file or further ticketing information.
His name was Banda Singh Bahadur and he had been saved from an ignoble life a few years earlier by the Tenth Guru Nanak. From that moment on his life changed forever, but more importantly so did the face of what we today know as India and Pakistan. The blueprint of the democratic era, established some three centuries ago, in a land thousands of miles from the West.
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