Pictures Of Different Sikhs From Around The World

mrggg123 · December 25, 2014

I'm confused as to what you're getting at. Yes of course there are many many Iranian Sikhs (the thriving Gurdwaras in Terhan and Zahedan are testament to that), and they are 'Iranian Sikhs' because their families have been born and bred in Iran for several generations now but when you say "there probably are Iranian Sikhs" are you talking about Persian ethnicity or Punjabis with Iranian nationality ?

i thought they had converted, didnt know they were migrants like afghan ones. Also yeh I think they might be white and not iranain, a lot of iranians look like english boys lol i.e features and blue eyes

mrggg123 · December 25, 2014

Well it would be "amazing" if that picture were actually of Iranian Sikhs. I've seen that photo before, I know for certain it is from one of the Sikh schools in India where alot of Americans send their kids. Probably the Miri Piri Academy but I can't be sure.

Exactly 0% of Iranian Sikhs are ethnic Persian. What I woud really like to do, some time in the future, is some research on the Sikh community of the infamous wild west frontier town of Zahedan in Iran. If there are any among you who can translate from Farsi, I would love to know the findings of this research paper :

http://www.ensani.ir/storage/Files/20120327185613-3079-14.pdf

what about during the gurus time where muslims became sikhs, these must have been persian/ arab people, are there any speific areas in india where these people reside or were they mixed into different 'castes' after this period?

what about those places where guru nanak dev ji visted where the locals adapted to some of sikhis principles like in africa they called guru ji 'gulu' or what about the place 'baba hassan' which was named after guru nanak dev ji? Any people in these places following sikhi?