ABSTRACT
Sikhism is the most recent in origin of the recognised Indian religions. There are now more than ten million Sikhs in India (largely concentrated in the north-western state of Punjab and the surrounding areas), where they significantly outnumber the combined totals of all Indian Buddhists and Jains. As a consequence of successive waves of emigration over the past hundred years, there are also perhaps a further one million Sikhs settled in other parts of the world, the most important communities of this diaspora being found in North America and in the United Kingdom, where the numbers of Sikhs are now comparable to those of British Jewry.
