PC/WI Sri Lanka not Punjab with a Sikh population.

With a post 1000AD pod, get the country of Sri Lanka to have a Sikh population instead of the Punjab region in the India sub continent.

This includes "The Golden Temple" at Amristar being built in the capital of Colombo.

Regards filers.
 
Err...

Sikhism developed under pretty specific conditions. It derived from the specific pressures and societal tensions between Islam and North Indian Hinduism. It took root in the Punjab specifically because this was a heartland of the Mughal empire with the consequent social and political interplay between Islam and Hinduism magnified.

The religious, cultural, and social dynamics on Ceylon were and are totally different. For one thing Islam is very much a minor religion there in comparison to Buddhism and Hinduism.

I mean you could have a charismatic religious syncreticist arise in Ceylon but he's going to have a totally different background to syncreticise from.
 
Flocculencio has said it. There was no scope for a Guru Nanak in SriLanka and the political and social conditions were vastly different from the North India and specifically Punjab.
 
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