2025 RationalWiki 'Oregon Plan' Fundraiser

There is no RationalWiki without you. We are a small non-profit with no staff—we are hundreds of volunteers who document pseudoscience and crankery around the world every day. We will never allow ads because we must remain independent. We cannot rely on big donors with corresponding big agendas. We are not the largest website around, but we believe we play an important role in defending truth and objectivity.

Fighting pseudoscience isn't free.
We are 100% user-supported! Help and donate $5, $10, $20 or whatever you can today with PayPal Logo.png!
Donations so far: $8765.50Goal: $10000

Draft:Khalistan movement

From RationalWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Information icon.svg This is a draft that anyone is free to edit as they would a mainspace page.

Do not add categories to draft pages; use {{draft categories}} instead for a view.

Contributors should nominate draft articles for deletion only if they believe that the article is not applicable to RationalWiki's mission.

Articles involving living persons must conform to our guidelines on biographies of living people.

The symbol of the Covenant Khalistan movement.

The Khalistan movement, also referred to as the Khalistani movement, is an ethnoreligious movement that seeks to create a separate state for Sikhs (a significant religious minority in India) by establishing Indian Punjab (and Pakistani Punjab) as a new homeland and break it off from India. The movement is infamous and notorious for its use of violence in the achievement of its goals, with its major leaders having been convicted of murder (such as targeted assassinations of politicians) and terrorism (think a Sikh version of Al-Qaeda).

Though designated as a terrorist group in India, the movement still flourishes significantly in countries such as Pakistan, Canada, and Britain through refugees supporting the movement abroad. Many members of these movements are designated as terrorists by interpol and are wanted by the Indian government.

Founding[edit]

The earliest calls for a Sikh ethnostate originated in the 1930s (much like other fascist movements around the world) when British dominance in India was nearing its end. The term “Khalistan” itself made its earliest appearance in 1940, in a nationalist pamphlet simply titled “Khalistan”.

See also[edit]