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==Origin==

The Sikh Reference Library was established by the [[SGPC]] with a [[Resolution (law)|resolution]] dated October 27, 1946.<ref name="tribune_fire_2003" /> The library had its roots in a meeting of the [[Sikh Historical Society]] under the presidentshippresidency of [[Princess Bamba]] on February 10, 1945 at [[Khalsa College, Amritsar]] which established the Central Sikh library.<ref name="tribune_fire_2003" /> The Central Sikh library was then folded into the Sikh Reference Library.

==Historical materials==

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==Efforts to recover the material==

Since 1988, the [[SGPC]] has written to the [[Government of India|Central Government]] asking for the return of the material taken by the [[Central Bureau of Investigation|CBI]] but has only received minor office files.<ref name="express_2009_george">{{cite news|url=http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/20000525/ina25042.html|title=George Fernandes admits Army removed items from Golden Temple during Operation B|date=May 25, 2000|publisher=Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.|accessdate=21 February 2011|___location=Bombay}}</ref>

On May 23, 2000 [[George Fernandes]] wrote to the [[SGPC]] Secretary, Gurbachan Singh Bachan, and acknowledged that the [[Indian Army]] had taken taken the books and other documents from the Sikh Reference Library and handed them over to the [[Central Bureau of Investigation|CBI]].<ref name="express_2009_george" /> He asked him to refer the matter to the [[Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (India)|Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions]], whose jurisdiction the CBI falls under.<ref name="express_2009_george" />

In a visit to [[Jalandhar]], [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]] [[George Fernandes]] announced that the CBI had destroyed 117 "seditious" documents from the material taken from the Sikh Reference Library.<ref name="tribune_fire_2003" />