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Agrahari Sikh is a Sikh community found in Eastern India that includes the States of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand. Agrahari Sikhs have lived for centuries...

Other Sikhs: A View from Eastern India", that Agraharis converted to Sikhism during Mughal period by Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji, 9th Guru of the Sikhs. Mughal...

text. Sikhs (singular Sikh: /sɪk/ SIK or /siːk/ SEEK; Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, romanized: sikkh, IPA: [sɪkkʰ]) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a...

The Sikh Confederacy was a confederation of twelve sovereign Sikh states (each known as a Misl, derived from the Arabic word مِثْل meaning 'equal'; sometimes...

This is the list of the major festivals of the Sikh religion. There are some other (around 45) festivals that are celebrated at a much smaller scale with...

the Assamese language. Agrahari Sikh is a Sikh community found in Bihar and Jharkhand. Agrahari Sikhs, also known as Bihari Sikhs, have existed for centuries...

Khalistan movement is a separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing an ethno-religious sovereign state called Khalistan (lit...

Jat Sikh or Jatt Sikh (Gurmukhi: ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ) is an ethnoreligious group, a subgroup of the Jat people whose traditional religion is Sikhism, originating...

Sikh (/ˈsiːk/ or /ˈsɪk/; Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, sikkh IPA: [ˈsɪkkʰ]) is the title and name given to an adherent of Sikhism. The term has its origin in the Sanskrit...

The Sikh gurus (Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ; Hindi: सिख गुरु) are the spiritual masters of Sikhism, who established the religion over the course of about two and...

Mazhabi Sikh (also known as Mazbhabi, Mazbhi, Majhabhi or Majabhi) is a community from Northern India, especially Punjab region, who follow Sikhism. Mazhabi...

1699, the Pahari Rajas of the Shiwalik Hills, frustrated with increasing Sikh ascendancy in the region, requested aid from Aurangzeb; their combined forces...

1 Sikh Arrah 1857, 3 Sikh Bihar 1857, 3 Sikh China 1860-62, 2 Sikh Ali Masjid 1878, 1 & 3 Sikh Ahmed Khel 1880, 2 Sikh Afghanistan 1878-79, 1 Sikh Afghanistan...

romanized: khaṇḍā) is the symbol of the Sikhism which attained its current form around the 1930s during the Ghadar Movement. The modern Sikh symbol is never written on...

Sikhism is the fourth-largest religious group in Canada, with nearly 800,000 adherents, or 2.1% of Canada's population, as of 2021. The largest Sikh populations...

The Sikh Empire, officially known as Sarkār-i-Khālsa and Khālasa Rāj,[citation needed] was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent...

The first Anglo-Sikh war was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in 1845 and 1846 around the Ferozepur district of Punjab...

Sikhism in Afghanistan in the contemporary era is limited to small populations, primarily in major cities, with the largest numbers of Afghan Sikhs living...

(Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization), also known as Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere or Sikh Dharma International, is a controversial American organization...

The principles of Sikhism state that women have the same souls as men and thus possess an equal right to cultivate their spirituality with equal chances...