There are separate laws governing Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and followers of other religions.

All Sikhs, on taking Amrit, are enjoined to lead a disciplined life by following a code of ethics leading to a " Saint-Soldier " way of life.

In contrast to many other faiths, Sikhs believe that when all other means to achieve justice are exhausted, then it is just to wield the sword.

The remaining 3 % are Tajiks, Punjabi Gujjars, Jats & ( Sikhs / Hindus ).

A small number of Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians are also found in the city.

Riots break out in New Delhi and nearly 10, 000 Sikhs are killed.

Although the vast majority of the members are Muslim, about 5 percent of the seats are reserved for minorities, including Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs.

In India, it is common to see the greeting (" Namaste " or " Sat Sri Akal " for Sikhs ) where the two hands ( palms ) are pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed.

Sikhs are not required to renounce the world.

The Five Ks, or panj kakaar / kakke, are five articles of faith that all baptized Sikhs ( also called Khalsa Sikhs ) are typically obliged to wear at all times, as commanded by the tenth Sikh Guru, who so ordered on the day of Baisakhi Amrit Sanskar in 1699.

Since 1984, relations between Sikhs and Hindus have moved towards a rapprochement helped by growing economic prosperity ; however, in 2002 the claims of the popular right-wing Hindu organisation the RSS that " Sikhs are Hindus " angered Sikh sensibilities.

Many Sikhs still are campaigning for justice for victims of the violence and the political and economic needs of the Punjab espoused in the Khalistan movement.

In 1997, Amor concluded, " it appears that the situation of the Sikhs in the religious field is satisfactory, but that difficulties are arising in the political ( foreign interference, terrorism, etc.

The Italian Sikhs are generally involved in agriculture, agro-processing, machine tools and horticulture.

There are also 110 Buddhists, 105 Sikhs, 60 Muslims, and 30 Jews.

According to census of 2001, 92 % of the MP residents followed Hinduism, while others are Muslim ( 6 %), Jain ( 0. 9 %), Christians ( 0. 3 %), Buddhists ( 0. 3 %), and Sikhs ( 0. 2 %).

Sikhs are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of larger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion.

There are also a few Sikhs.

Khālsā (; ) is the collective body of Singhs and Kaurs represented by the five beloved-ones and is the final temporal Guru / leader of the Sikhs.

Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs are well represented in Kampthi, with Buddhist, Hindus and Muslims being the majority.

To all Sikhs it represented the cruelty of its Governor, Wazir Khan had to render an account for this bestial act.

The British built a large British Indian Army, with the senior officers all British, and many of the troops from small minority groups such as Gurkhas from Nepal and Sikhs.

During the Middle Ages, Muslims were in conflict with Zoroastrians during the Islamic conquest of Persia ; Christians were in conflict with Muslims during the Byzantine-Arab Wars, Crusades, Reconquista and Ottoman wars in Europe ; Christians were in conflict with Muslims during the Crusades, Reconquista and Inquisition ; Shamans were in conflict with Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims and Christians during the Mongol invasions ; and Muslims were in conflict with Hindus and Sikhs during Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent.

While he waged jihad against Sikhs in North-Western India, his followers fought the British after his death and allied itself with the Indian Mutiny.

* 1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar.

Category: Indian Sikhs

For example, gatka is a weapon-based Indian martial art created by the Sikhs of the Punjab region of India and the Kshatriya caste of Hindus have another ancient martial art named Shastra vidhya.

Approximately 76 % of all Sikhs live in the northern Indian State of Punjab, where they form a majority ( about two thirds ) of the population.

Substantial communities of Sikhs, i. e., greater than 200, 000, live in the Indian States / Union territories of Haryana ( with more than 1. 1 million Sikh population ), Rajasthan, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh Assam and Jammu and Kashmir.

The British Raj preferentially recruited Sikhs in the Indian Civil Service and, in particular, the British Indian Army, which led to migration of Sikhs to different parts of British India and the British Empire.

Due primarily to socio-economic reasons, Indian Sikhs have the lowest adjusted decadal growth rate of any major religious group in India, at 16. 9 % per decade ( est.

Sikhs in the Indian army

Sikhs make up 10 – 15 % of all ranks in the Indian Army and 20 % of its officers, while Sikhs form only 1. 87 % of the Indian population, which makes them over 10 times more likely to be a soldier and officer in the Indian Army than the average Indian.

He defines three such group-specific rights: special group representation rights ( such as affirmative action policies in politics ); self-government rights ; and polyethnic rights ( such as the policy exempting Sikhs from having to wear motorcycle helmets ).

# Ardas – Sikhs conclude their prayers by doing the Ardas and invoking God's blessings on everyone – not just on Sikhs.

In 1834 Dost Mohammad defeated an invasion by the former ruler, Shuja Shah Durrani, but his absence from Kabul gave the Sikhs the opportunity to expand westward.

The Afghan leader did not follow up this triumph by retaking Peshawar, however, but instead contacted Lord Auckland, the new British governor general in British India, for help in dealing with the Sikhs.

In 1838 Auckland, Ranjit Singh, and Shuja signed an agreement stating that Shuja would regain control of Kabul and Kandahar with the help of the British and Sikhs ; he would accept Sikh rule of the former Afghan provinces already controlled by Ranjit Singh, and that Herat would remain independent.

The Sikhs were supported by the East India Company until they were defeated later by the British forces during the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars.

He suffered imprisonment in Nabha, a princely state, when he went there to see the struggle that was being waged by the Sikhs against the corrupt Mahants.

Jahangir's rule was characterized by the same religious tolerance as his father Akbar, with the exception of his hostility with the Sikhs, which was forged so early on in his rule.

However, the Sikh governors turned out to be hard taskmasters, and Sikh rule was generally considered oppressive, protected perhaps by the remoteness of Kashmir from the capital of the Sikh empire in Lahore ; The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, closing down the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and banning the azaan, the public Muslim call to prayer.

Earlier, in 1780, after the death of Ranjit Deo, the Raja of Jammu, the kingdom of Jammu ( to the south of the Kashmir valley ) was also captured by the Sikhs and afterwards, until 1846, became a tributary to the Sikh power.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.

The Talwar is a type of curved sword that was introduced to India in the 13th century by invading Muslim conquerors and was adopted by communities who favoured the sword as their main weapon, including the Rajputs, Marathas and Sikhs.

However, the firangi was widely used by the Mughals and those peoples who came under their rule, including Sikhs and Rajputs.

In 1628, immediately after becoming Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan's forces were ambushed by Sikh rebels, the Emperor organized an assault, which caused almost all the Sikhs, including Guru Hargobind and his mercenaries to flee.

Sikhs who have undergone the khanḍe-kī-pahul, the Sikh initiation ceremony, can also be recognized by the Five Ks: uncut hair ( Kesh ); an iron / steel bracelet ( kara ); a Kirpan, a sword tucked in a gatra strap ; Kachehra, a type of special shorts ; and a Kanga, a small comb to keep the hair clean.

People revered by Sikhs also include:

An example of Sikhism's commitment to tolerance is the fact that the foundation stone of one of the most prominent shrines of the Sikhs — Darbar Sahib, Amritsar also known as the Golden Temple — was laid, not by the many eminent Sikh leaders or the 4th Sikh Guru Ramdas, who was the leader of the Sikhs at that time, but by a Sufi Muslim by the name of Sain Mian Mir.