EST. 2025 / OPEN ACCESSAMRITSAR · 31.6200° N, 74.8765° EBUILDING THE LARGEST SIKH AGGREGATION PROJECT

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The Sikh Archive.

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The Golden Temple in Amritsar, a watercolour by William Carpenter from 1854, displayed in monochrome — **Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar.** William Carpenter, 1854.Watercolour / V&A collection

ABSTRACT / 001

Knowledge
without
gatekeepers.

A free and open archive of Sikh scripture, history and heritage. Built through seva, for the scholar, the seeker, and the generations still to come.

SikhArchive is your guide to what is held. Visit Sikhism.io from the main entrance above, or follow the collection links into Sikhi.io to read, search, listen and explore. The international sites provide additional language-specific reading rooms.

Open the scripture reader ↗

ACCESS STATUS OPEN TO ALL

52MENU ENTRIES EXPLAINED 3,001BOOKS INTO ENGLISH 08INTERNATIONAL SITES 111LANGUAGES IN THE HUB ↗

CHOOSE YOUR FIELD OF ENQUIRY

Inside SikhArchive.

01 / COLLECTIONS

Explore the collection index↗

A guide to all 52 Sikhi.io menu entries across nine fields of enquiry, with direct links to scripture, books, music, images and reference material.

02 / DATA REGISTER

What the archive contains↗

Explore reported holdings across scanned texts, Sikh music, images, literature, encyclopedias, historical events and worldwide gurdwara records.

03 / TRANSLATIONS

3,001 books. A new readership.↗

Discover SikhArchive’s English translation programme, powered by proprietary AI developed in house, and find the translated books in the library.

04 / RESEARCH & RECOVERY

Decode. Recover. Rediscover.↗

Explore proprietary AI text research, the recovery and restoration of Sikh images, and more than 38,000 extracted kirtan, simran and katha audio links.

05 / PUNJAB & ANCESTRY

Land, people and memory↗

Explore Punjab’s history, ancestry and sovereignty through the Indus world, Indic traditions and Sikh Empire, with references and research context.

06 / SIKHI UNIVERSITY

A place for sustained study↗

Discover Sikhi University’s open courses and learning journeys in Sikh theology, history, philosophy, language, music and modern skills.

07 / PUNJABIUNI

Learn Punjabi. Learn through Punjabi.↗

Explore PunjabiUni’s Gurmukhi language school, historical dictionaries and open faculty teaching technology, agriculture and world literature through Punjabi.

08 / INTERNATIONAL