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More than 300 kilometres from Patna, Dalit settled in villages adopted Sikhism in large numbers.

The special districts of Nyanagr, Khwaspur, Prmanandpur, Manikpur and Mjltta Dalit village there are nearly 200 men and women who have embraced Sikhism.

In particular in Hilhai village there is a Gurdwara Sahib called Takht Sri Akal where hundreds gather every weekend.

Narendra Singh saw it all happen in front of his eyes. He lived for ten years in Punjab stricken with poverty and racial discrimination and he wasn’t accepted by the Khalsa Panth in Punjab.

He then returned to his village and spread what he learned about the Sikh faith in Bihar. To his surprise, the locals accepted the faith introduced to them in the 80s and now they have carried it through to the third generation. A Dalit turned Sikh from Katana Sahib Punjab, Khanna worked here for 35 years and said after he accepted the faith, he was opposed by the locals in Punjab and moved to Bihar.

~ Source: bbc.com