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Earlier this year, the bagpipes were playing, drums were beating, and the elders of a Scots clan gathered well into the small hours. It could have been a scene set anywhere in the land of the brave but it wasn‘t. Instead of the rolling hills and soaring mountains of the Scottish highlands the setting was the biggest military cantonment in Asia situated in Bhatinda in the Punjab.

Story by Richard Moss, Culture24.org.uk. His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester was at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London on June 2nd 2006 to unveil the latest plaque in a UK-wide scheme which highlights items of Anglo-Sikh heritage held in museums and at heritage sites.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall witness a dramatic display of Sikh Swordsmanship