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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.
In newly conquered regions, "religio-nationalist movements emerged in response to British ' divide and rule ' administrative policies, the perceived success of Christian missionaries converting Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims, and a general belief that the solution to the downfall among India's religious communities was a grassroots religious revival."
The Khalistan movement is an independence movement seeking to create a separate homeland for Sikhs by establishing a Punjabi Sikh nation‐state called Khalistan ("land of the Khalsa") in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent.
India's Sikh independence movement eventually became a bloody armed insurgency that shook India in the 1970s and 1980s. It was centered in northern Punjab state, where Sikhs are the majority ...
India's Sikh independence movement eventually became a bloody armed insurgency that shook India in the 1970s and 1980s. It was centered in the northern Punjab state, where Sikhs are the majority ...
Although the Khalistan movement has little support now in India, it has small pockets of backing among sections of the Sikh diaspora in Canada, which has the largest population of Sikhs outside ...
The Khalistan movement is a Sikh separatist movement, which seeks to create a separate country called Khalistān (' The Land of the Khalsa ') in the Punjab state of India to serve as a homeland for Sikhs. [151]
The Singh Sabha movement, a movement to revitalize Sikhism, also saw the resurgence of the Khalsa after their defeat in wars with the British [247] – latterly in the Second Anglo-Sikh War – and the subsequent decline and corruption of Sikh institutions during colonial rule, and the proselytization of other faith groups in the Punjab.