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A 2002 photograph of women at the Sikh temple in Leicester, the Guru Tegh Bahadur Gurdwara, peeling potatoes in the communal kitchen or langar. The communal kitchen is an important feature of all Sikh gurdwaras with the whole congregation contributing and preparing food, so that everyone can share a meal together.

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Three Sikh girls during a Gurmukhi lesson in 1987 at the Guru Gobind Singh supplementary school in Bradford. Gurmukhi is the script used for written Punjabi and is the language in which the Sikh scriptures are written.

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A 1966 photograph, taken probably in northern England, of a bus conductor wearing his uniform together with the turban, the distinctive mark of his Sikh identity. According to Sikh law, the turban must not be covered or replaced by any other cap or hat. In the 1960s several campaigns were mounted to permit Sikh employees of bus companies in England to wear the turban and not the uniform cap. In 1982 the House of Lords ruled that Sikhs were a separate ethnic group effectively entitling them to wear turbans in all walks of life.

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