This reminds me. Last month I was visiting Smithsonian Institute Museum, Washington DC. In the Museum of Natural History, of all the places, there was a temporary special exhibit gallery - on Punjab and Sikhism.
It avoided all mentions of India or Hinduism. All it said was "Nanak Dev was raised in a Hindu family". Rest of the exhibit explained how Sikhs are "martial peoples" , how their "religion" is egalitarian and so on, and wealth of Punjab. Lots on Raja Ranjit Singhji and his son Dilip Singh (who had been "adopted" by Queen Victoria, volunteerily converted to Christianism, and buried in England). Lots on the persecution of the Gurus, but NO mention of the jehadi angle of the persecutions, and Islamic hatred towards Sikhs. The Shahjahan and Awrangzeb were largely forgiven.
I suspect it was a paid arrangement. The funny part was why was it in the museum of natural history? Sikh gallery in between the sections of insects and mammals!
It avoided all mentions of India or Hinduism. All it said was "Nanak Dev was raised in a Hindu family". Rest of the exhibit explained how Sikhs are "martial peoples" , how their "religion" is egalitarian and so on, and wealth of Punjab. Lots on Raja Ranjit Singhji and his son Dilip Singh (who had been "adopted" by Queen Victoria, volunteerily converted to Christianism, and buried in England). Lots on the persecution of the Gurus, but NO mention of the jehadi angle of the persecutions, and Islamic hatred towards Sikhs. The Shahjahan and Awrangzeb were largely forgiven.
I suspect it was a paid arrangement. The funny part was why was it in the museum of natural history? Sikh gallery in between the sections of insects and mammals!