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Sikhism, a religious tradition emerged in the Punjab region of North India and comprises of over sixteen million people, most of them Punjabis, who live in India and around the world.

More than 80 percent of the world’s Sikh population lives in India, most concentrated in the Punjab where there are more than one thousand Gurdwaras, the Sikh houses of worship.

Sikhs revere a lineage of sixteenth and seventeenth century Gurus, respect, the holy book the Adi Granth, treated as a living Guru and now a juristic person that contains the Guru’s teachings, and possess a strong sense of communal identity symbolized by the characteristic turbans and beards worn by Sikh men.

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Major Sikh festivals are Baisakhi, Diwali, Guru Purab. (Birth Anniver­sary of the Gurus), Martyrdom of the Guru Arjun Singh, Guru Teg Bahadur, Sahibzadas etc.

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