The Sikh diaspora may be understood as a people shaped by movement, displacement, and continuity. Across generations, Sikhs have settled in distant lands while remaining bound by memory, faith, and shared history, gathering under the Nishan Sahib wherever they reside. Sikh history bears the weight of repeated violence and rupture, including the Ghallugharas and the partitions that sought to fracture the community. Empires of their time, including the Mughal and British, attempted to suppress Sikh sovereignty and spirit, yet could not extinguish the Sant-Sipahi tradition that endures within Sikh collective memory. Wanjara Nomad Collections exists to preserve and assemble material traces of Sikh history through carefully curated antiquities, rare books, and archival objects. These collections are held to safeguard memory, enable learning, and support truthful transmission across generations. We observe history with patience, attentive to how it moves and settles, like sand through an hourglass. Though Sikhs have made homes across the world, the pulse of this tradition remains rooted in the presence of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Alongside this grounding persists a quiet yet enduring claim to dignity and justice, expressed in the principle of Halemi Raj and the declaration “Hum Rakhat Patshahi Dava.”
Our pulse remains in the essence, and presence of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Our heart still longs to see The Halemi Raj “ Hum rakht patshahi dava”. Yearning for our Lahore!