Editing Sikhs (section)

=== British rule in India ===
[[File:Sikh Armour and weapons.jpg|thumb|upright|Sikh armour and weapons]]
[[File:“Sikh Sardar”, photograph by John McCosh taken in circa 1848-9.jpg|thumb|“Sikh Sardar”, photograph by [[John McCosh]] taken circa 1848–49]]

After the annexation of the Sikh kingdom by the British, the British Army began recruiting significant numbers of Sikhs and [[Punjabis]].{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} During the 1857 [[Indian mutiny]], the Sikhs stayed loyal to the British, resulting in heavy recruitment from Punjab to the [[British Indian Army]] for the next 90 years of the [[British Raj]] in [[colonial India]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ballantyne|first1=Tony|title=Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World|date=2006|publisher=Duke University Press|location=United states|page=66|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cArhKfrY_IoC&pg=PR5 |access-date=21 January 2015|isbn=0822388111}}</ref> The distinct turban that differentiates a Sikh from other turban wearers is a relic of the rules of the British Indian Army.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cohn|first1=Bernard S|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIalYaenrTkC&pg=PR9|title=Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India|date=1996|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0691000433|location=Princeton, NJ|pages=107–109|access-date=26 January 2015}}</ref> The British colonial rule saw the emergence of many reform movements in India, including Punjab, such as the formation of the First and Second [[Singh Sabha Movement|Singh Sabha]] in 1873 and 1879 respectively. The Sikh leaders of the Singh Sabha worked to offer a clear definition of Sikh identity and tried to purify Sikh belief and practice.<ref>{{cite book|last=Oberoi|first=Harjot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1NKC9g2ayJEC|title=The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity, and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1994|isbn=9780226615929|location=Chicago|page=494|access-date=2013-09-18}}</ref>

The later years of British colonial rule saw the emergence of the [[Akali movement]] to bring reform in the [[gurdwara]]s during the early 1920s. The movement led to the introduction of ''Sikh [[Gurdwara]] Bill'' in 1925, which placed all the historical Sikh shrines in India under the control of the [[Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nesbitt|first1=Eleanor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ai-rpcY-rrgC&q=sgpc&pg=PT10|title=Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=0-19-280601-7|series=Very Short Introductions|location=Oxford|access-date=14 January 2016|via=Google Books}}</ref>