Family organisation among the Sikhs in Britain

Abstract

There has been a fairly substantial amount of emigration from the Punjab during the past century, and Sikh communities are now established in many parts of the world. The impetus behind this emigration is still not clearly established, although almost all of it took place under the British Imperial umbrella, and it was often encouraged by the Imperial authorities. Many Sikhs were recruited into the British Indian Army, and many former soldiers subsequently entered service in the police forces of Malaya and Hong Kong. Others travelled independently to set up businesses there, or used these places as staging-posts before moving on to Bangkok and Canada. Some of the labourers, and many of the craftsmen, engaged to build India's railways were Sikhs, and when the railway from the coast up into the interior of Kenya and Uganda was built, many of these workers were brought out to construct it.

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