Dera Sucha Sauda -Sikh conflict in India

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Some of my first cousins are married to Sikh girls while some other cousins were married into Sikh families (and these were arranged and not love marriages). But from the last few years when Sikhs have started talking of Sikhism as a separate religion, I don’t think anyone in my family now would even dream of marrying from or marrying into a Sikh family.

One of the reasons Sikh numbers (population) was increasing in the past was because of inter-caste marriages i.e. Hindu-Sikh marriages…Now Sikhs see marrying Hindus as marrying into another religion (for Sikhs it is not inter-caste marriage anymore but Sikhs see it now more as inter-religious marriage). Hindus have also stopped making their first son as Sikh after Sikhs started proclaiming Sikhism as a separate religion so the net result of this would be total Sikh population may started falling in the coming decades.

I hope better sense prevails amongst Sikhs in the coming decades as Sikhs more than Hindus would suffer in the long run (by cutting the umbilical cord and slowly trying to severe all ties with Hindus, Sikhism faith may totally disappear in a century or so).

Let’s also face it, the respect and awe Sikhs inspired amongst Hindus before 1980s has slowly disappeared. First the Punjab militancy followed by anti-Sikh riots (orchestrated by Congress) and Sikhs declaring Sikhism as a separate religion etc has somewhat soured ties between Hindus and Sikhs.