While we often discuss the first Sikhs who arrived in the United States (as early as the end of the 18th century, and more commonly in the early 20th), a recent article by Kulbir Colin Singh Dhillon provides short biographies about the earliest recorded Americans who served Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Punjab in the first half of the 19th century: In March 2007 whilst doing research on the Sikh Kingdom I came across a newspaper article titled, “A Yankee in the […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner, Colonel Canora, Josiah Harlan, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Sikh empire