Traction alopecia is common in individuals of the Sikh faith who wear tight bun hairstyles covered by turbans. An IRB-approved 50-question survey self-assessing hair loss and various care practices was offered voluntarily through email distribution to national organizations. Out 156 total respondents, 82% indicated they wore a turban daily. Of participants specified turban, 50% kept it on for a...

This paper offers a set of nuanced narratives and a theoretically-informed report on what is the driving force and motivation behind the movement of Hindus and Sikhs from one continent to another (apart from their earlier movement out of the subcontinent to distant shores). What leads them to leave one diasporic location for another location? In this sense they are also ‘twice-migrants’. Here I...

india, is a land of different nations who smile with those people who do not believe any of their opinions. along with the arrival of islam in india by arab merchants in 712 ad, the followers also continued to exist side by side with others, and formed part of the multi - religious society until gurkaniyans came to power. but, at this time, the local governments of different faiths and beliefs ...

Sikh religion originated under the shade of Hinduism and Islam in India. It shaped itself as a distinct category away from “Hinduism”. While Muslim Rulers that era tried to contain influence Sikhism, Hindu elites 19th 20th centuries assimilate Sikhs treated them sect within Hinduism. This paper tries map quest Sikhism for maintaining its identity resisting attempts assimilation. The Khalistan m...

AIM To analyze the haplotype of the Ezhava population of Kerala, south India, using 8 short tandem repeat (STR) loci on the Y chromosome and trace the paternal genetic lineage of the population. METHODS Whole blood samples (n=104) were collected from unrelated healthy men of the Ezhava population over a period of one year from October 2009. Genomic DNA was extracted by salting out method. All...