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Eighteen accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
All World Views Does God Exist?The Sikh Diaspora stream of the Sikhism timeline.
Streams: All of Sikhism Sahajdhari The Khalsa Panth Nirankari Namdhari Sikh Diaspora
The Khalsa Jatha of the British Isles opens a gurdwara in Shepherd's Bush, the first in Britain, serving Sikh students, soldiers, and peddlers in the imperial capital; the small congregation is the seed of British Sikh life, which grows after the Second World War into one of the diaspora's largest communities.
Sikh and other Indian migrants on North America's Pacific coast found the Ghadar Party in San Francisco and publish its newspaper in Punjabi and Urdu, calling for the overthrow of British rule in India; thousands sail home in 1914 to raise the rising that the Punjab authorities crush, and its martyrs enter Sikh memory.
The steamship Komagata Maru, chartered by Gurdit Singh with three hundred seventy-six mostly Sikh passengers, is held for two months in Vancouver harbor under Canada's exclusion rules and forced back to India, where police fire on the returnees at Budge Budge; the incident becomes the diaspora's emblem of imperial exclusion and a spur to the Ghadar cause.
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.
A white supremacist gunman attacks the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek during Sunday preparations, killing six worshippers and wounding others, including the police officer who confronts him; the congregation's answer, chardi kala, ever-rising spirits, carries the diaspora's story of faith under attack into American memory.
