The Gurdwara Sahib is a major supporter of Khalistan, a global movement to create an independent Sikh nation in India's Punjab state. — Los Angeles Times/TNS
IN 1905, a 39-year-old farmer named Jawala Singh left his home in Punjab and boarded a ship heading east, eventually making his way to Panama and slowly on to San Francisco – an important hub for a growing diaspora.
Like thousands of other Sikhs, he was fleeing famine, malaria and British colonisers.
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