"What is Sikhism? The term Sikhism has two components: “Sikh” and “ism”. The word sikh is the Punjabi form of the Sanskrit word w:Guru-shishya traditionShishya, which means a “Student”, a learner, or a disciple, while “ism” is a Greek suffix that was added to the word “Sikh” around 1830 by the British administrators who ruled India to denote the Sikh tradition."
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