ABSTRACT
The history of British Sikh settlement consists of successive migrations, and these largely correspond to the social and hereditary groupings, which constitute the structural diversity of the 'Sikh community'. This chapter briefly recalls the intrinsic diversity of 'Sikhism' before offering an overview of Sikhs in the United Kingdom (UK). Some examples of UK Sikhs' diversity in relation to locality, caste, religious groupings, political groupings, generation, language, and appearance are introduced by the suggestion of a possible analytical framework and suggest the multiple ways in which Sikhs identify themselves. All this has implications for the representation of the Sikh tradition in schools and universities. As Sikh settlement in the UK spans a century, and Britain's Sikhs far outnumber any other European Diaspora Sikh community, it is unsurprising that the literature on UK Sikhs is far too extensive to review in detail.
