Many people say that the library was set on fire by the army once it completed the operation and a considerable number of articles were gutted. There are different takes on how the library lost its repository during the army operation.

вЂњApart from Gurmukhi, scriptures in Persian, Arabia and Tibetan were also kept in the library before 1984,вЂќ reads a research piece authored by noted Sikh scholar late Shamsher Singh Ashok. The rare literature of other religions was also preserved there. Here, Hindustan Times explains the issue and the row around it.Д®stablished by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) in 1946, the library, adjoining Golden TempleвЂ™s deori (entry gate) from the Atta Mandi side, had precious repository of rare manuscripts of Guru Granth Sahib and other Sikh scriptures, including Dasam Granth and вЂjanam sakhisвЂ™, original вЂhukamnamasвЂ™ (edicts) issued by the gurus, besides rare paintings, documents and literature. His claim has attracted the attention of the Sikh circles worldwide which want the truth to be out. LibraryвЂ™s former director Anurag Singh, who worked from November 4, 2008, to January 4, 2009, claimed that some of the articles which are now being termed as missing were returned by the army to the SGPC. The mystery has deepened with one of the libraryвЂ™s former directors alleging failure of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) in preserving the repository after the operation 35 years ago. Damaged during Operation Bluestar carried out by the army in the first week of June 1984 to flush Sikh militants out of the Golden Temple complex, the Sikh Reference Library, a home to precious repository of books, manuscripts and scriptures on the premises of the supreme Sikh shrine, is again in the news over some missing rare articles.

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