Samraj

23 || sikh || ex-classicist || part-time persianist || full-time bhakta

[Samraj @samrajmore]

“chilling w some mobsters (chhibber & bhangu)” - nines

[Samraj @samrajmore]

hello ji

[The Khalsa Chronicle @KhalsaChronicle]

‘The Literature of the Minas: Piran Ki Var’ by @samrajmore.

On the rise of the Mina community through their notorious leaders and neglected literature.

🔗 https://t.co/C7VZqokZiL

[The Khalsa Chronicle @KhalsaChronicle]

‘The Literature of the Minas: Piran Ki Var’ by @samrajmore.

On the rise of the Mina community through their notorious leaders and neglected literature.

🔗 https://t.co/C7VZqokZiL

[Samraj @samrajmore]

@hemantsarin @iqtibaas88 @moomjamma @britishmuseum Yes, this appears to be the very same scene from another workshop, producing a version of this circulating image of an assembly of Sufi saints.

I was hoping to find a reference for this unusual Pahari painting, but it’s proving difficult.

Thank you, though!

[Samraj @samrajmore]

Help! Does anyone know the provenance of this painting of an assembly of Sufis? I believe it first cropped up online in a post made by @moomjamma …

[Samraj @samrajmore]

@iqtibaas88 @moomjamma Indeed, it seems to be a much circulated and reproduced depiction of Sufi saints, originating in Mughal workshops.

This Guler painting seems to be a Pahari example of this very same scene, but it’s proving hard to track down!

[Samraj @samrajmore]

@hemantsarin can you help at all?

[Samraj @samrajmore]

Nice to know the Suthrashahis are alive and kicking outside of Punjab!

[Samraj @samrajmore]

i wrote! again! after a very long time!

[The Khalsa Chronicle @KhalsaChronicle]

‘Pothi Paramesara Ka Thana’ by @samrajmore.

A brief survey of the earliest manuscripts of the Sikhs and the hitherto unknown songs within.

🔗 https://t.co/03oVvX8WG4

[The Khalsa Chronicle @KhalsaChronicle]

‘Pothi Paramesara Ka Thana’ by @samrajmore.

A brief survey of the earliest manuscripts of the Sikhs and the hitherto unknown songs within.

🔗 https://t.co/03oVvX8WG4

[Samraj @samrajmore]

This photograph of Chajju’s shrine shows two Chatris, one of which can be seen towards the top left of S. M. Latif’s engraved illustration.

Chajju has been forgotten, yet he is said to have asked Guru Arjan to consider his poetry when word got out about the Guru’s Adi Granth.

[Samraj @samrajmore]

Probably the only illustration of Chajju Bhagat’s mausoleum in Lahore. With the expansion of Mayo Hospital, all three of the peripheral Chatris drawn below have been demolished, leaving only the central Caubara enclosed within the hospital’s extension.

[Samraj @samrajmore]

🚨Does anyone have access to a copy of Dr. Harnam Singh Shan’s Sufi Kavi Sangrah?🚨

[Samraj @samrajmore]

🚨Does anyone have access to a copy of Dr. Harnam Singh Shan’s Sufi Kavi Sangrah?🚨

[Samraj @samrajmore]

ਏ ਹਦ ਤਜਿ ਹਿੰਦੂ ਤੁਰਕ ਕੀ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਸਉ ਰਹੇ ਸੁਰਖਰੂ ॥

Renounce these borders of ‘Hindu’ and ‘Muslim’,
Be glad, dyed saffron-red by your Lord!

[ਠੇਠ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Theth Panjabi ٹھیٹھ پنجابی @ThethPanjabi]

Qila Anandgarh, built by Guru Gobind Singh between 1695–1700, photographed by Dhanna Singh 'Patialvi', 30 May 1934. It survived the Mughals, Afghans, & British, but could not survive those who had built it – the Sikhs. It was destroyed by Kar Seva babas, who rebuilt a Disney fort

[Samraj @samrajmore]

Welling up in my tutorial when my tutor told me what all the holes were in the satellite images of Aï Khanoum

[Jay Vardhan Singh @Jayvtweets]

In the 1970s, you could buy Bronze Age artefacts from the streets of Kabul. These items were looted from excavation sites in Northern Afghanistan.

[Samraj @samrajmore]

इक्को पुणोपि इक्को भवति अरब खरवणि ।
इक्को पुणोपि नठ्ठो पीछे सुन्य सुन्याइ ॥ ९ ॥

[Samraj @samrajmore]

my outlook app slowly forgetting more and more oxford emails

[Samraj @samrajmore]

remember them days !!!

[Samraj @samrajmore]

dhan dhan uk funky