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According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, Sikhs in England and Wales enumerated 524,140, or 0.9% of the population [62] Northern Ireland recorded a population of 389, or 0.02% of the population. [49] The equivalent census was recorded a year later in Scotland with a population of 10,988, making up 0.2% of the population. [50]
English Sikhs number over 520,000 people and account for 0.9% of England's population in 2021, forming the country's fourth-largest religious group. In 2006 there were 352 gurdwaras in England. [1] The largest Sikh populations in the U.K. are in the West Midlands and Greater London. Nagar Kirtan Convoy in Barking, London.
Niazi (Niāzī; IPA: [niːˈɑːziː], Pashto: نيازي), Niazai or Niyazai is one of the largest Pashtun tribes which resides in Afghanistan and northwestern part of Pakistan. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Origin
Paul Uppal the small business commissioner speaking at a Sikh community event in the Midlands Neena Gill was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands Atma Singh – Policy Advisor to the Mayor of London on Asian Affairs in the Greater London Authority , under Mayor of London Ken Livingstone
Forty years on, victims of the violence after prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination still seek justice.
Sikhs coming to London either migrated to the East to set up businesses where the wholesale, retail and manufacturing elements of the textile industry were located. Many Sikhs also moved to West London and took up employment at Heathrow airport and the associated industries and in the plants and factories of major brands such as Nestle around it.
Anti-Sikh sentiment can be motivated by an ethnic hatred of Sikhs or religious hatred of Sikhism, but in Western countries (especially the US and UK [2]) it can also be fueled by Islamophobia, stemming from a conflation of Sikhs and Muslims due to the racialization of Islamophobia, with Sikhs sharing the same racial background with many Muslims.
The Sikhs are adherents to Sikhism, the fifth largest organized religion in the world, with around 25 million adherents. [1] Sikh History is around 500 years and in that time the Sikhs have developed unique expressions of art and culture which are influenced by their faith and synthesize traditions from many other cultures depending on the locality of the adherents of the religion.