Laurent Kretz

A Sikh taking a morning holy bath at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. By Jingye.

As for certain things in your daily life that you never think of questioning, I realized reading Freedom at Midnight that I knew nothing about the Sikhs, and their religion Sikhism.

Yet they account to 25 millions worldwide, including 19 millions in India and 6 millions in the rest of the world. It’s the fifth largest religion in the world, and is only 400 years old.

So here is, in brief and for the neophytes like me, what Sikhs and Sikhism are.

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