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Khalistan, (Punjabi: Khālistān, “Land of the Khālsā,” meaning “pure”) in Sikh political ideology, autonomous Sikh homeland. The declaration of the Khālsā by Gurū Gobind Singh in 1699 and the religio-political vision that came with it fired the Sikh imagination with the belief that it was their