Source: The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3678100.ece
India's highest Sikh body has written to the Queen, Gordon Brown and the Archbishop of Canterbury to try to block an auction at Sotheby's of a piece of armour thought by some to have belonged to a Sikh guru.
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has also written to Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister, who is a Sikh, asking him to help to delay the auction in London next Wednesday.
Sotheby's says that the armour is similar to a set that is fabled to have belonged to Gobind Singh, the 10th Sikh Guru, although there is no hard evidence that the one for sale was his.
But Avtar Singh Makkar, the SGPC chief, told The Times yesterday that he had formed a committee of Sikh experts to travel to London to determine if the armour did belong to Gobind Singh.