Sikhs of Burma

ABSTRACT The essay 1 critically engages with more than a century-long Sikh settlement in Burma. The Sikh community immigrated to Burma following the completion of the British annexation of the country (1886). The history of Sikhs witnessed a few major twists and turns as well as a few uprooting and displacement. This history prompts a rise of doubt among a section of experts in Burma Studies about whether the community would likely be submerged within the wider ethnocultural framework of the dominant Burmese nation. Such assertions of experts need scrutiny and the essay questions their claim based on a rereading available source.