On: Why are there so many Canadians in India?

[selimthegrim]

My money was on all the Punjabis going back and forth to BC

[barry-cotter → selimthegrim]

Wouldn’t it be more informative to say Sikhs?

[titanomachy → barry-cotter]

A Punjabi Sikh can renounce his religion but he would still be Punjabi.

(Sikhism is the dominant religion of the Punjab region.)

[sfifs → barry-cotter]

Most Punjabis are not Sikhs. If you live in North America, a lot of Punjabis you may have come across may have been Sikhs.

[arrayjumper → barry-cotter]

(Nearly) All Sikhs are Punjabi but not all Punjabis are Sikh.

[hadlock → barry-cotter]

The P in Pakistan (a majority Muslim country) arguably stands for Punjab,

From wikipedia:

> using it as an acronym .., and referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan.

That said, there are a non-trivial number of Sikhs in the area, at least one Sikh holy site is very near the Pakistan-India border in the Punjab region.

[selimthegrim → barry-cotter]

My family hailed from East Punjab before the Partition and wasn’t (and isn’t) Sikh.

[Ar-Curunir → barry-cotter]

There are many non-Sikh Punjabis.