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Many Sindhi Sikhs left for the Republic of India in large groups through ships via ports in Karachi to Bombay and Gujarat and also by trains via Hyderabad to Rajasthan. [1] [6] Sindhi Sikhs and Hindus followed the same refugee routes to India. [6] Some rich Sindhi Sikh refugees travelled by plane to Delhi during the partition.
India's capital and second-largest city with nearly 20 million inhabitants, Delhi was home to 570,581 Sikhs at the 2011 census, the largest municipal Sikh population in the world. Gurdwara Dasmesh Darbar is located in Brampton , Ontario .
Indian Sikhs number approximately 21 million people and account for 1.7% of India's population as of 2011, forming the country's fourth-largest religious group. The majority of the nation's Sikhs live in the northern state of Punjab, which is the only Sikh-majority administrative division in the world.
The Sikh homeland is the Punjab state, in India, where Sikhs make up approximately 58% of the population. This is the only place where Sikhs are in the majority. Sikhs have emigrated to countries all over the world – especially to English-speaking and East Asian nations.
In a remarkable display of democratic aspirations, an estimated 40,000 Sikh Americans lined up around the state Capitol on Sunday to enter a tent and cast a vote for independence.
Sikhism is the most common faith in Punjab, numbering over 16 million people representing 57.69% of the population, making it the only Sikh-majority state in India. Around 38.49% of the population (10.68 million) follow Hinduism , while Islam is followed by 1.93% of the population (535,000) and Christianity 1.26% (350,000). [ 43 ]
Punjabi Sikhs primarily inhabit the Indian state of Punjab, the only Sikh-majority administrative division on Earth. Punjabi Sikhs make up 57.69% of the state’s population. [6] Many have ancestry from the greater Punjab region, an area that was partitioned between India and Pakistan in 1947.
The British colonial rule saw the emergence of many reform movements in India, including Punjab, such as the formation of the First and Second Singh Sabha in 1873 and 1879 respectively. The Sikh leaders of the Singh Sabha worked to offer a clear definition of Sikh identity and tried to purify Sikh belief and practice.