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Sikandar Butshikan's iconoclastic policy

Sikandar Butshikan's iconoclastic policy (سلطان سکندر بٹشیکاں) was Sultan Sikandar Shah Miri's program of temple destruction, forced conversion, and jizya on Hindus in Kashmir, 1389 to 1413.

Sikandar Hayat Khan

Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan (سکندر حیات خان) was Premier of the Punjab, elected in 1937, whose Unionist government pursued communal harmony and opposed the partition of India.

Sikandar ibn Muhammad Manjhu

Sikandar ibn Muhammad Manjhu (سکندر بن محمد منجو) was a Persian-language historian of Mughal India, author of the Mirat-i Sikandari, a history of the Gujarat Sultanate.

Sikandar Jah

Sikandar Jah (سکندر جاہ), born Mir Akbar Ali Khan in 1768, was the third Nizam of Hyderabad from 1803 to 1829; the twin city Secunderabad is named after him.

Sikandar Ka Muqaddar (सिकंदर का मुकद्दर) is a 2024 Hindi heist thriller by Neeraj Pandey on Netflix, starring Jimmy Shergill, Avinash Tiwary, and Tamannaah Bhatia in a 15-year diamond-heist obsession story.

Sikandar Kher (सिकंदर खेर)

Sikandar Kher (सिकंदर खेर), also Sikander Kher, Indian actor, son of Kirron Kher and stepson of Anupam Kher; debut Woodstock Villa (2008); known for Daulat in Aarya, Monica O My Darling, and Hollywood debut Monkey Man (2024).

Sikandar Lodi

Sikandar Lodi (سکندر لودی) was a sultan of the Lodi dynasty of Delhi, reigning from 1489 to 1517; he reformed revenue collection and made Persian the court language.

Sikandar Raza

Sikandar Raza Butt, Pakistani-born Zimbabwean all-rounder (born 1986, Sialkot), off-spin batting all-rounder, Zimbabwe T20I captain, most capped Zimbabwe international (314 caps, 2026), first Zimbabwean T20I centurion.

Oct 10, 2026

Sikandar Shah (sultan of Bengal)

Sikandar Shah was the second sultan of the independent Bengal sultanate, reigning 1358 to 1389 or 1390, who repelled Firuz Shah Tughlaq's invasion and built the Adina Mosque at Pandua.

Sikandar Shah Miri

Sikandar Shah Miri (سکندر شاه) was a sultan of Kashmir of the Shah Mir dynasty, reigning 1389 to 1413 and remembered as Butshikan, the icon-breaker, for his destruction of temples.

Oct 22, 2026

Sikandarnama

Sikandarnama (সিকান্দরনামা) is a Bengali narrative poem completed in 1673 by Syed Alaol, a Bengali rendering of Nizami Ganjavi's Persian work on Alexander the Great.

Sep 27, 2026

Sikander Kumar

Sikander Kumar is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Himachal Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha since 2022, after serving as vice-chancellor of Himachal Pradesh University.

Sīkar

Sikar (सीकर), city and district headquarters in Shekhawati, northeastern Rajasthan, India, on NH 52 between Agra and Churu; former largest thikana of Jaipur state, 2011 district population 2,677,333, known for havelis, peasant struggles, and water scarcity.

Sikaram Sar

Sikaram Sar (سیکرم, Mount Sikaram), 4,755 m, is the highest peak of the Spīn Ghar (Safēd Kōh) range on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border south of the Khyber Pass, an ultra-prominent summit (2,295 m) and type locality of the Sikaram Series.

Sikasso (city)

Sikasso (Sikaso, ߛߌߞߊߛߏ߬), southern Mali city, capital of Sikasso Region; former capital of the Kénédougou kingdom under the Traoré, famed for its tata wall, taken by France in 1898; Mali's second city, cotton and mango trade hub near Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso.

Sikasso (district)

Sikasso (district): a southern administrative region of Mali, third administrative region, capital the city of Sikasso; center of Malian cotton ('white gold'), site of the Sikasso poverty-measurement paradox, mining transfers, and 2025 JNIM fuel-truck attacks.

SIKE family

SIKE family (Pfam pfam05769, InterPro IPR008555): conserved coiled-coil proteins including SIKE/SIKE1, suppressor of IKKε, a 207-aa TBK1/IKKε-binding inhibitor and substrate regulating antiviral interferon signaling, plus FGFR1OP2.

Sikh conquest of Kangra

The Sikh conquest of Kangra (काँगड़ा पर सिख आक्रमण) was the 1809 campaign in which Ranjit Singh's Sikh forces drove the Gurkhas out of the Kangra hill country.

Sikh Empire

Sikh Empire, also called the Sikh Kingdom or Lahore State, was the northwestern South Asian state founded by Ranjit Singh from the Sikh misls, spanning Punjab, Kashmir, and parts of Afghanistan and Tibet, until British annexation in 1849.

Sikh Gurus

The Sikh Gurus are the ten human teachers who led the Sikh faith from Guru Nanak's founding in 1469 to Guru Gobind Singh's death in 1708.

Sikh Misls

The Sikh Misls (ਸਿੱਖ ਮਿਸਲਾਂ) were Sikh confederacies that governed Punjab in the later eighteenth century, organized in 1748 into the Dal Khalsa under Jassa Singh Ahluwalia.

Sikh Panth

The Sikh Panth (ਪੰਥ) is the organized Sikh community, led by ten Gurus from Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh, whose authority passed to scripture and community in 1708.

Sikh Regiment

Sikh Regiment: infantry regiment of the Indian Army, raised 1846 (Ferozepore and Ludhiana Sikhs), famed for the 1897 Battle of Saragarhi by 36th Sikhs (now 4th Battalion), distinct from the 1941 Sikh Light Infantry; holds 2 Param Vir Chakras.

Sikh scriptures

The Sikh scriptures center on the Guru Granth Sahib, a 1,430-page anthology of devotional poetry compiled by Guru Arjan in 1604 and revered as the Sikhs' living Guru.

Sikh women and turbans

Sikh women and turbans concerns head-covering in Sikhism: the Sikh code makes the turban optional for women, and most wear a chunni, with turbans common among diaspora Sikhs.

Oct 10, 2026

Sīkha-Moggallāna

Sīkha-Moggallāna (सिखा मोग्गल्लान) was a brahmin of the Moggallāna clan, named for the tuft on his head, who visited the Buddha to ask whether he preached the ineffectiveness of all deeds.

Sikhism (ਸਿੱਖੀ)

Sikhism, also called Sikhi, is a monotheistic religion founded in the Punjab region of South Asia by Guru Nanak, with about 25 million followers who revere the Guru Granth Sahib.

Sikhism and caste

Sikhism and caste, also called the caste system in Sikhism, concerns the tension between the Gurus' doctrinal rejection of caste and its persistence in Sikh practice.

Sikhism by country

Sikhism by country: global distribution of Sikhs. About 95% live in India (77% in Punjab); Canada has the largest diaspora (771,790 in 2021), followed by the UK (~520,000) and US (~500,000).