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Amritsar Golden Temple
in town of Amritsar, Punjab, India.
It is the holiest spiritual site of Sikhism.
Sikh Nation greater autonomy in India
Sikhs number about 25-30 million worldwide, of whom 22–28 million live in India, which thus represents around 90% of the total Sikh population.
About 76% of all Indian Sikhs live in the northern Indian State of Punjab, forming a majority of
about 58 per cent of the state's population,
roughly around 16 million.
Sikhs emigrated from India after World War II, most going to the United Kingdom
The Sikh diaspora has been most successful in the UK, and UK Sikhs have the highest percentage of home ownership (82%) of any religious community.
UK Sikhs are the
second-wealthiest religious group in the UK.
Source: Wikipedia
sikh women equal to men
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According to Sikhism,
men and women are two sides of the same human coin.
Within the Sikh system, women are the equals of men.
Educate against
Hate Crimes / racism against Sikhs in British schools.
Background:
In the UK Suffragette movement, what is rarely mentioned is that ethnic minorities were very much a prominent part of this fight for women’s rights, most famously Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
(8 August 1876 – 22 August 1948) .
Sikh princess, Sophia Duleep Singh, was a member of the WSPU and the Women’s Tax Resistance League. She played an important part in the movement and devoted her life to the ‘advancement of women’.
Her father became the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire in 1843.
Sophia’s grandfather was Ranjit Singh, the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
Due to her position (her godmother was Queen Victoria) , she quickly found herself in Emmeline Pankhurt’s inner circle.
In 1908, in the home of Una Dugdale a famous suffragette who made national news for her refusal to say "and obey" in her marriage vows, Sophia joined the WSPU.
In the following year she became a devoted member of the Women's Tax Resistance League, which was a group that used tax resistance to protest against the lack of women’s rights.