The Sikh courts and the Gurus

ਗੁਰੂ ਅਤੇ ਮੁਗ਼ਲ

1469 – 1708 · 54

Detail of Bhai Mardana, from a painting of Guru Nanak with Bhai Mardana, JaipurRoyal Ontario Museum, Toronto · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Imaginary Meeting of Guru Nanak, Mardana Sahab, and Other Sikh Gurus'LACMA, Los Angeles · photo Commissioned painting by Lala Nanak Ram upon meeting Priyata (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Painting of five Sikh gurus (most likely identifiable as Guru Nanak, Guru HargobindSalar Jung Museum, Hyderabad · photo Jawaher Ali Khan (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak with the Other Nine Gurus, Bhai Puran SinghGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak listening to some music attended by his holy man.Wellcome Collection (via Europeana) · CC BY ↗Guru Nanak with Mardana on the left and Bala on rightWikimedia Commons ↗A painting on ivory, a miniature portrait of Guru Nanak Singh, the first Sikh GuruWikimedia Commons ↗A painting of Guru Nanak from Baghdad, Iraq attributed to a painter by the name of…Wikimedia Commons · Kamal-ud-din Behzad (1450-1535) of Tabriz (claimed) ↗Bhai Bala Recites the Life Story of Guru Nanak to Guru Angad and OnlookersAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak at Panja SahibGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak at SchoolAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak at the Modikhana of Sultanpur LodhiAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak in Kamarupa (Kamrup region), the land ruled by womenAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak stops the boulder from falling with his hand at Hasan AbdalGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak with followers and other holy menWikimedia Commons ↗Wedding of Guru Nanak and SulakhniAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak with Mardana and Bala in MeccaWikimedia Commons ↗A King Pays Homage to Guru NanakGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Depiction of Guru Nanak meeting either his brother-in-law, Jai Ram, or the governorAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Detail of Guru Nanak from the earliest known painting of all ten Sikh gurus togetherLACMA, Los Angeles · photo Commissioned painting by Lala Nanak Ram upon meeting Priyata (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak, holding prayer mala beads and with a staff resting under his armpitAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak Comes upon the Sannyasi, DattatreyaGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak Subdues KaliyugaGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak meets Nath Sidhas at the village of Achal BatalaAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak meets with Bal Nath Yogi’s DisciplesAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak with FollowersGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo family workshop of Nainsukh of Guler (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak with possibly Mool Chand Chona (white-bearded man wearing pink)Asian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Kashmiri style painting of Guru Nanak with disciples and attendantGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo Guru Nanak with Disciples and Attendant. Kashmiri style. Pun (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Painting, paint on ivory, a miniature portrait of Guru Nanak.V&A, London · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Vidaai (also spelt Bidaai) or Doli of Guru Nanak and Sulakhni's weddingAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Nanakpanthi’, a Sikh who follows Guru NanakBritish Library, London · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak is the saint for all followers of the Sikh faithGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo shankar s. from Poona (pune), India, India (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY ↗Page 49: Guru Nanak listening to some music attended by his holy manWellcome Collection ↗Painting of an astrologer and holy men, possibly depicting Guru Amar DasMusée Guimet, Paris · photo Attributed to 'Ali Quli Jabbadar (fl. late 17th-early 18th C (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Bhai Lehna (later Guru Angad) and his companions visit Baba NanakWikimedia Commons ↗ਗੁਰੂ ਰਾਮਦਾਸGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo Family workshop (or atelier) of Nainsukh of Guler (Wikimedia Commons) ↗

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ਮਿਸਲਾਂ ਅਤੇ ਅਫ਼ਗ਼ਾਨ

1708 – 1799 · 11

Guru Gobind Singh and Guru Nanakca. 1700 - ca. 1720 · Mandi© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting of Guru Nanak listening to Bhai Mardana, Punjab, ca.1700–25Wikimedia Commons ↗Painting of Guru Arjan Dev, Punjab, ca.1700–50Wikimedia Commons ↗Painting of Guru Har Rai (or possibly Guru Hargobind?), Punjab, ca.1700–50Wikimedia Commons ↗Raja Jaswant Singh of Siba, Siba School, 1730-1750 CE, Lahore MuseumLahore Museum · photo SpeakingArch (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA ↗Raja Balwant Singhca. 1750 · ਜੰਮੂ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting of Guru Nanak with Guru Gobind Singh, Mandi, ca.1750Museum Rietberg, Zurich · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗India, Himachal Pradesh, Mandi, circa 1780 Drawings; watercolors Opaque watercolorLACMA, Los Angeles · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Durga on tigerLate 18th century -early 19th Century · ਕਾਂਗੜਾ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting, Punjab Hillsca. 1790 · Punjab Hills© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting, Gulerca. 1790 · Guler© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗

ਲਾਹੌਰ ਰਾਜ

1799 – 1849 · 75

A Sikh nobleman[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh nobleman[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh nobleman[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh commander (?)[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh pandit's servant[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗Two Sikh men dueling with wooden swords[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh ruler holding a lotus flower[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh Maharaja or nobleman holding a blue sword[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh man with a halo sitting on a chair[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India?],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh man riding in an elaborate domed carriage pulled by two oxen[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh man on a horse followed by a man holding a parasol[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗A Sikh (?) woman in a bright orange dress holding an umbrella and walking[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗Rana Ranjit Singh on a horse with three attendants[between 1800 and 1899?] · [India],Wellcome Collection ↗Painting of Guru Gobind Singh Circa 1800 AD Painted metal with meena work 12 x 10.8 cmWikimedia Commons · Satdeep Gill · CC BY ↗A Sikh coupleca. 1805 · Tanjore© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Golden Throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh by Hafiz Muhammad Multani dated 1805–1810V&A, London · photo Oleg Yunakov (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA ↗Painting of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Lahore with Dhian Singh Dogra, Central Sikh MuseumCentral Sikh Museum, Amritsar · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Maharaja Ranjit Singh with wivesWellcome Collection (via Europeana) · CC BY ↗Rana Ranjit Singh on a horse with three attendantsWellcome Collection (via Europeana) · CC BY ↗A Man with a Huqqah (smoking pipe) and Dancing Girl or The Amazons of Ranjit Singh' by…Lahore Museum · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Young Maharaja Ranjit Singh', Company style, nineteenth century, pigment on paperAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Maharaja Ranjit Singh's funeralBritish Museum, London · photo workshop of Purkhu of Kangra (Wikimedia Commons) ↗ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘV&A, London · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Maharaja Ranjit Singh on horseback (with black hairs still visible in his beard)Asian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Painting of Maharaja Ranjit Singh on horseback with attendant, Bazaar School, AmritsarWikimedia Commons ↗Portrait of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, NimbateV&A, London · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Ranjit Singh and Hira Singh seated togetherV&A, London · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Crop of 'Ranjit Singh's favorite horse and some of his finest jewels'Asian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Kas Singh, son of Maharaja Ranjit SinghWikimedia Commons · Muhammad Bakhsh Nakash [Naqqāsh] ↗Maharaja Ranjit Singh in a bazaar, caAshmolean Museum, Oxford · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Victoria and Albert Museum Artefacts Golden Throne of Maharaja Ranjit SinghV&A, London · photo Sourabh.biswas003 (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA ↗Painting of a young Ranjit Singh from the 'Iqbalnama-i-Maharaja Ranjit Singh'Wikimedia Commons ↗Painting of the funeral and cremation of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and some of his queens…Central Sikh Museum, Amritsar · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Mausoleum (Samadhi) of Ranjit Singh in Lahore, a watercolourBritish Library, London · photo Lumsden & Co. (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Pencil drawing of the tomb (Samadhi) of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in LahoreBritish Library, London · photo Henry Ambrose Oldfield (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Lithograph showing one of the favourite horses of Maharaja Ranjit Singh with the head…British Library, London · photo Eden, Emily (Wikimedia Commons) ↗

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ਬਸਤੀਵਾਦੀ ਪੰਜਾਬ

1849 – 1947 · 80

Portrait of Maharajra Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), nimbateca.1849 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh noblesca. 1850 · ਦਿੱਲੀ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh noblesca. 1850 · ਦਿੱਲੀ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh noblesca. 1850 · ਦਿੱਲੀ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh noblesca. 1850 · ਦਿੱਲੀ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh noblesca. 1850 · ਦਿੱਲੀ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh noblesca. 1850 · ਦਿੱਲੀ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh noblesca. 1850 · ਦਿੱਲੀ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh noblesca. 1850 · ਦਿੱਲੀ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh noblesca. 1850 · ਦਿੱਲੀ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Ganesha worshipped by a Sikh ruler, ca.1850Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Nanak with Baba Bala Nath 19th century painting about Guru Nanak from the Janam…National Museum, New Delhi · photo Satdeep Gill (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY ↗Guru Nanak preaching in Rameshwaram 19th century painting about Guru Nanak from the…National Museum, New Delhi · photo Satdeep Gill (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY ↗Guru Nanak's marriage with Mata Sulakhani 19th century painting about Guru Nanak from…National Museum, New Delhi · photo Satdeep Gill (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY ↗Guru Gobind Singh, opaque watercolour on paper, Punjab, circa 18th or 19th centuryWikimedia Commons ↗Painting of Guru Hargobind, sixth Sikh guru, Pahari, ca.1850Museum Rietberg, Zurich · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Crestprobably 19th century · Punjab (India)© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Crestprobably 19th century · Punjab (India)© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting, Punjab Hillsmid 19th century · Punjab Hills© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting of Sir Henry Lawrence, Sikh school, Punjab Hills, ca.1850Lahore Museum · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Painting of Sir Henry Lawrence, Sikh school, Punjab Plains, ca.1850Lahore Museum · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Painting of a seated European man, Sikh school, Punjab Plains, ca.1850Lahore Museum · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Painting of Guru Nanak with Bhai Mardana, Jaipur, Rajasthan, circa early-19th centuryRoyal Ontario Museum, Toronto · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Sikh and British Officers of Hodson's Horse, 1858National Army Museum, London · photo Felice Beato (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Painting, Lahoreca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting, Lahoreca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Sham Singh Atariwalaca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Kharak Singhca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting, Lahoreca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting, Lahoreca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting, Lahoreca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Har Dayca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Rani Jindanca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Rani Jindanca. 1850 - ca. 1870 · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗

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ਦੋ ਪੰਜਾਬ

1947 – ਅੱਜ · 1

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ਹਰ ਯੁੱਗ ਵਿੱਚ

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Battle between Sikhs and EnglishWellcome Collection ↗Battle in KabulWellcome Collection ↗Two rows of soldiers, English and Sikhਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰWellcome Collection ↗A Sikh soldier with his wife offering him betel leavesWellcome Collection ↗Quoitsਉਨ੍ਹੀਵੀਂ ਸਦੀ · Punjab (India)© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings deicting Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh nobles© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗One of twelve tiny paintings depictsing Mughal emperors, Afghan and Sikh nobles© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗Painting of Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh of Lahore, Central Sikh MuseumCentral Sikh Museum, Amritsar · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Painting of Maharani Chand Kaur of Lahore, Central Sikh Museum (Kendri Sikh Ajaibghar)Central Sikh Museum, Amritsar · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Sikh Craft kept at Chandradhari Museum, Darbhanga.Wikimedia Commons · P. C. Roy Chaudhury · CC BY-SA ↗ਸਿੱਖWikimedia Commons · The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles ↗The Sikh Bomber" Mohan Singh, 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs…National Army Museum, London · photo The wub (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA ↗Battle Standard flag of the Sikh Empire featuring Durga on her lion or tiger mountAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Battle Standard flag of the Sikh Empire featuring central sun motifAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Equestrian portrait of Brijraj Dev of Jammua? (G) or could be Sikh chief IndianMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Portrait of [likely] Ram Rai (often misidentified as depicting the ninth Sikh guruAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Taken from an article written by Atsushi Ikeda of the Univer (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Sikh constabulary in British North Borneo [today part of Malaysia]Wikimedia Commons ↗Sikh and wife.Wellcome Collection · CC BY ↗Sikh warrior and wife.Wellcome Collection · CC BY ↗A Sikh and his wifeWellcome Collection ↗Maharaja Ranjit Dev with Srimat Singh, Balawant Singh and Srimat Ghanasyam DevIndian Museum, Kolkata · photo Anup Sadi (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA ↗Peshawara Singh [also spelt Pashaura Singh or Peshora Singh] (middleWikimedia Commons · Muhammad Bakhsh Nakash [Naqqāsh] ↗Description below taken from source website: "Details Title: The Court of Maharaja…Wikimedia Commons · Muhammad Bakhsh Nakash [Naqqāsh] ↗Jammu, PahariIndian Museum, Kolkata · photo Sneharshidasgupta (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) in Multiple Forms18ਵੀਂ ਸਦੀ · TibetArt Institute of Chicago ↗SkriftIndien India Индия Intia Índia Индия Indija Indija Indija Inde India India IndijMuseum of Ethnography (via Europeana) ↗SkriftIndien India Индия Intia Índia Индия Indija Indija Indija Inde India India IndijMuseum of Ethnography (via Europeana) ↗Brush drawing in ink with colour wash on paperWikimedia Commons ↗Sri Gobind Singh on horseback with his falcon and attendants.Wellcome Collection (via Europeana) · CC BY ↗Miniature painting of Raj Singh of Guler [Raja Gaj Singh GopalLACMA, Los Angeles · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗ਗੁਰੂ ਅਰਜਨGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo Family workshop of Purkhu of Kangra (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Guru Govind Singh mixing nectar for his disciples at the birth of KhalsaWellcome Collection (via Europeana) · CC BY ↗Equestrian portrait of Akali Phula Singh (altBritish Museum, London · photo After: Colesworthey Grant Published by: Thacker & Co (?) (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Mai Bhago was the first woman in sikh history to take up arms to fight opressors.Wikimedia Commons · SikhHeritageMuseum (by unknown photographer) ↗Akalees (Akalis)”, from "Portraits of the Princes and People of India”, by Emily EdenAsian Art Museum, San Francisco · photo Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Commons) ↗Mountain gunਉਨ੍ਹੀਵੀਂ ਸਦੀ · ਲਾਹੌਰ© Victoria and Albert Museum, London ↗

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Pictures from the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum (via Europeana), Bhuri Singh Museum, Chamba, 65 more, found automatically: public domain or openly licensed, except the V&A's, shown for non-commercial use with the museum's credit. Titles and dates are the museums' own; each card names its museum and any licence. Updated 2026-10-26.