The partition of India cuts the Punjab in two, and its Sikhs, caught between the new states and targeted in the west, flee east in one of the century's great migrations, leaving Nankana Sahib and the western shrines behind; perhaps two million Sikhs are displaced, and the community's center settles permanently in Indian Punjab.
Tagged: Sikh Sikh Diaspora The Khalsa Panth
The Event
- Date
- 1947 (exact)
- Also called
- Partition
- Era
- Reform and Colonial; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- The Punjab; today Punjab, India and Pakistan
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sikh Diaspora, The Khalsa Panth
Primary Sources
- The transfer-of-power records
Secondary Sources
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
Provenance: HIST-0531; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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