The Sikh Scholar

Gurinder Singh Mann is a Sikh historian based in Leicester who has dedicated 25 years to building a rigorous scholarly record of Sikh history and culture. His publications through Oxford University Press have established him as one of the leading academic voices on the subject. But his work extends beyond the page: he has been involved in developing the 3D Sikh Museum, an Anglo-Sikh Wars exhibition, a Sikh war memorial statue in Victoria Park Leicester, and a 3D installation at the Royal Armouries that uses immersive technology to bring Sikh history to new audiences.

Much of Mann's recent work focuses on the family of Maharaja Dalip Singh — the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, exiled to Britain as a child — and the web of injustices that surrounded his treatment by the British Crown. The Sikh Scholar is a film about a man who believes that history has consequences, and that getting it right is not an academic exercise but a matter of justice. It's a portrait of scholarship as a form of community service.