how would you look at sikh separatism and extremism in punjab
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The Khalistan movement is a Sikh separatist movement and an ideology supporting means to establish an independent within India called Khalistān ('Land of the Khalsa'), in the Punjab region.[1] The proposed state would consist of land that currently forms Punjab, India and Punjab, Pakistan,[i]
Ever since the separatist movement gathered force in the 1980s, Some nations have sided with Sikhs, and the territorial ambitions of Khalistan have at times included Chandigarh, sections of the Indian Punjab, including whole North India and some parts of western states of India.[2][3]
The call for a separate Sikh state was established in the wake of the fall of the British Empire.[4] In 1940, the first explicit call for Khalistan was made in a pamphlet titled "Khalistan".[5][6] With financial and political support of the Sikh diaspora, the movement flourished in the Indian state of Punjab—which has a Sikh-majority population—reaching its zenith in the late 1970s and 1980s when the secessionist movement and its ideals caused large-scale violence from the local Hindu population towards the Sikhs, including riots in Delhi burning Sikh women, children and shop owners alive and targeting Sikhs across the country. The culprits behind the mass murder of Sikhs by a complicit Government and Police force are yet to be put to justice but the struggle continues to bring justice for these atrocities.