..., and where the Sikh community in South Asia is affected by transnational trends in global affairs. The early twentieth-century Ghadar movement of diaspora Sikhs is an example of the former, and the late twentieth-century Khalistani movement of Sikh separatism is an example of the latter. The transnational...

..., is a period of transition marked by political unrest that affected Punjab between 1984 and 1992, and the surge of the Khalistani movement (a movement supportive of Punjab independence during the Indo-Punjab conflict in the late nineties). The fourth and last period started with the end of the conflict...