{"id":316,"date":"2026-06-18T05:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:11:52","slug":"the-sikh-sect-linked-to-henry-nowaks-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"The Sikh sect linked to Henry Nowak&#8217;s killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The air was thick with incense and tension. The hall was already bustling, as men and boys gathered under the shadow of ceremonial weapons and the resonant boom of a Sikh war drum. Some looked as though they were preparing for battle, wearing empty bandoliers and tactical camouflage vests, four-foot swords hanging by their sides. I was invited to sit and eat at the free kitchen, just like at every Sikh temple, as I watched the foyer fill up.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=314\">The Tories are dead and nobody cares<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet as more and more people arrived, a man with a quizzical look approached me. He asked if I was a journalist. When I said I was, he told me that this was a private event, and that nobody would talk to me anyway. The meeting\u2019s outcome, he added, would be publicized on social media. When I asked where exactly, he smiled and answered glibly. \u201cThe same channels where you found out about this meeting.\u201d I wasn\u2019t going to argue, shuffling past a thronged mass of conical turbans towards the door.<\/p>\n<p>I had come to the Shri Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji Chauni Temple, in a quiet Coventry suburb, in search of the Nihangs: a fearsome Sikh warrior order. You likely haven\u2019t heard of them \u2014 but you\u2019ll almost certainly have heard of Vickrum Singh Digwa. He\u2019s the man who stabbed Henry Nowak on a Southampton street last December, and whose resulting conviction for murder has generated one of Britain\u2019s periodic fights about multiculturalism and belonging.<\/p>\n<p>These debates have now raged for weeks, but one thing has remained largely unnoticed: a passage in Judge William Mousley\u2019s sentencing remarks, where he paused to explain that Digwa belonged to the Nihangs, the same Sikh group I\u2019d encountered in Coventry. This matters, and far beyond Vickrum Digwa \u2014 for the Nihangs are in many ways a symbol of our troubled moment.<\/p>\n<p>Only about a quarter of the world\u2019s 25 million Sikhs are baptized. These so-called Khalsa are the only Sikhs required to wear the religion\u2019s \u201cfive Ks\u201d, including uncut hair (<em>kesh<\/em>), the steel bracelet (<em>kara<\/em>), and the now-infamous <em>kirpan<\/em> blade. The Nihangs are a minority within this minority. Today, there are estimated to be somewhere between a few hundred thousand and a million worldwide, concentrated in the Punjab. In the UK, the movement has a few hundred adherents.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cNihang\u201d itself means \u201ccrocodile\u201d in classical Persian or \u201cwithout attachments\u201d in Sanskrit. Both translations evoke the order\u2019s martial roots. Formed in the 18th century, as a vanguard against Muslim Mughal persecution, the Nihangs embodied an ethos that fused spirituality with steel. \u201cWhen all other means have failed,\u201d wrote Gobind Singh, the tenth and final living Sikh guru in 1705, \u201cit is righteous to unsheathe the sword.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so it proved, with the Nihangs long acting as the shock troops of Sikh military power. These irregular formations fought the Mughals, held mountain passes against Afghan invaders, and were so notorious that the British later issued shoot-on-sight orders against them. G.H. Hodson, a colonial officer who fought them in the mid-19th century, described how one Nihang \u201crushed to meet me like a tiger. I never beheld such desperation and fury in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clothing was crucial to this fiery reputation. Their appearance, then and now, is extraordinary. The traditional Nihang outfit is deep navy blue, the color chosen by Gobind Singh after campaigning against the Mughals at the turn of the 18th century. Over this, and as I saw in Coventry, Nihangs wear towering conical turbans, the <em>dastar<\/em> <em>bunga<\/em>, ringed with steel quoits called <i>chakram<\/i>. They have a special, almost theological, relationship with steel itself, which they call <em>sarbloh<\/em>, the \u201call-iron\u201d. Crafting their weapons from steel, they even eat their food with <em>sarbloh<\/em> utensils, viewing the metal as infused with divine strength and martial purity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s precisely this glimmer of violence that makes the Digwa case so distinctive. The killer carried two knives the evening he stabbed Henry Nowak. The first \u2014 a small, curved <em>kirpan<\/em> under his clothing \u2014 is the ceremonial blade required of all Khalsa Sikhs. Its carrying is protected under British law, provided the blade doesn\u2019t exceed nine inches. This is familiar territory: even before the Nowak case, and all the public debate that\u2019s followed, the <em>kirpan<\/em> exemption had been debated, defended, and litigated for decades. What made Digwa unusual was that second knife. It was an 8.2-inch <em>pesh-kabz<\/em>, a straight-bladed dagger designed to pierce chainmail armor and worn visibly. Though it\u2019s also sometimes worn by other Khalsa Sikhs, this other blade is especially associated with the Nihang. Digwa himself wore it to work. He wore it in public. He had told himself that this was part of who he was.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Gurnam Singh, a sociologist at the University of Warwick who gave evidence at the trial, said that over the last 30 years there has been a trend among younger Sikhs towards wearing the <em>kirpan<\/em> with pride. Many, he explained, see it as an act of resistance to erasure \u2014 a way of insisting on a visible identity in a country that often wants minorities to be present but inconspicuous.<\/p>\n<p>Other commentators have linked this resurgence to the \u201cmanosphere\u201d phenomenon of young men looking for meaning, not dissimilar to those Muslims drawn to jihad. I heard hints of this in Coventry, as I listened to the chatter among excitable teenage Nihangs, a group affectionately known as <em>bajungis<\/em> (young snakes). \u201cWell, I\u2019m with the <em>bumbaclaart<\/em> Buddha Dal,\u201d one proudly told his mate. He was referencing his Nihang sub-order, but the strange blend of Jamaican street talk and Punjabi hints at a boy in search of an identity. \u201cWell look at me,\u201d I heard another kid say, like everyone else dressed in Nihang robes. \u201cDo you think any <em>gora<\/em> [white man] is going to approach me now looking like this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=312\">How cars fuel the forever war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019d be wrong to equate Vickrum Digwa with all Nihangs, let alone all Sikhs. To wear that second blade without discipline, without years of study and submission to the order\u2019s internal hierarchy, is a kind of borrowing that the tradition itself would not easily recognize. No less important, carrying the <em>kirpan<\/em> symbolizes a duty to defend the weak, meaning it should never be drawn lightly, or used on the unarmed.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Mousley, to his considerable credit, understood this distinction, and indeed made it the crux of his sentencing. He accepted that carrying the <em>pesh-kabz<\/em> under Nihang tradition might initially have constituted a good legal reason for having it \u2014 a religious and cultural justification sufficient to meet the threshold of the knife-carrying exemption. But, he added, that reason must have come to an end the moment Digwa removed it from its sheath. He used it offensively. Then he lied about it, letting Henry Nowak die handcuffed on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Little wonder Kamalroop Singh, a Sikh scholar and representative of the Buddha Dal Nihang order, says that though Digwa often turned up at Nihang events, he was not an official member \u2014 describing him instead as a \u201cfantasist Nihang\u201d. Other Sikh leaders make a similar point. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen all Sikhs of whatever background or order roundly condemn the actions of Digwa,\u201d says Gurpreet Anand of the Khalsa Jatha British Isles, the country\u2019s oldest Sikh temple, \u201cand there is a concerted effort to ensure nothing like this happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet these fair-minded condemnations don\u2019t change the fact that for Khalsa, even those who only wear a single blade, the <em>kirpan<\/em> remains non-negotiable. Shamsher Singh, of the National Sikh Youth Federation, which supports the creation of a Sikh homeland in Punjab, describes the knife as a sign of \u201cSikh sovereignty\u201d. \u201cIf the Government wants to ban the <em>kirpan<\/em>,\u201d he says, \u201cmany Sikhs would continue to wear it, as our right to wear the <em>kirpan<\/em> doesn\u2019t come from English law, it comes from our own sovereignty which predates our encounter with the British.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s a view echoed by another prominent Sikh leader, who tells me he\u2019s personally informed Keir Starmer that if the <em>kirpan<\/em> were banned \u201cthe UK\u2019s jails will be filled with Khalsa Sikhs\u201d. The Nihang tradition is even more uncompromising. Not merely a cultural identity, but a martial order with a code of conduct, its weapons are instruments of a discipline that is both physical and spiritual.<\/p>\n<p>All this is taking place in Britain, a country where arms are politically and legally charged in ways that headdress or dietary practices obviously aren\u2019t. Taken together, the Nihangs are an object lesson in the challenges of balancing minority rights with the demands of the liberal state \u2014 especially when some members are political far beyond the <em>kirpan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In India, Nihangs have occasionally attacked Christian pastors and worshipers. In Britain, some have gravitated towards Tommy Robinson, which is ironic given his self-declared Christian credentials. A few even joined the now-defunct English Defence League in its short-lived \u201cSikh Division\u201d. Any links are tenuous, issue-specific and individual rather than institutional, especially given the Nihangs are traditionalists by nature. The nexus that does exist stems primarily from shared opposition to radical Islamism. Sikh street gangs, like the Shere-Punjab in Birmingham, were originally formed to fight white racists in the Seventies. In later decades, though, some elements morphed into a vehemently anti-Muslim campaign amid fears that Sikh girls were being groomed and forcibly converted, especially at so-called \u201cDaytime Bhangra\u201d music gigs. More recently, groups like Sikh Youth UK have openly supported Robinson, claiming they\u2019re fighting Muslim grooming gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, more mainstream Sikhs are keen to distance themselves from these trends. \u201cThis alliance is limited to a vocal minority of Sikhs,\u201d emphasizes Shamsher Singh, \u201csome of whom were members of the English Defence League, much to the horror of most Sikhs. It\u2019s a short-sighted strategy by these misled Sikhs who are only serving to divide their own communities.\u201d All the same, a sect born resisting Islamic persecution in India still finds itself entangled, in its fringes, with anti-Islam currents in Britain, while also being associated with a killer whose actions have damaged the broader Sikh reputation as a \u201cmodel minority\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So what of the future? One possibility is that the shock of the Nowak case nudges the Nihangs closer to the Sikh mainstream, away from performative militancy and into a quieter, more clearly bounded expression of faith. Another outcome, though, is that the fringe hardens, drawing strength from grievance, street culture and ever-stronger alliances with Britain\u2019s anti-Muslim Right.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens next, I find myself returning to those overheard conversations in Coventry. The slang, the bravado, the football talk, the half-played identities \u2014 it all felt like the talk of boys trying on a future, measuring themselves against one another, against history, against the gaze of strangers. In that sense, the Nihangs are not only an old warrior order but a contemporary one too. That isn\u2019t because they\u2019ve solved the problem of identity, but because they embody just how unsettled identity has become. Here was a tradition built for a world of empires, still speaking in the language of honor and swords, now being carried forward by young men in a Britain shedding all its old certainties. Whether that leads to greater integration, harder fragmentation, or some uneasy balance between the two may depend less on theology than on what those boys decide they\u2019re trying to become.<\/p>\n<p>The British state will eventually need to decide whether it wants firmer legal clarity around the <em>kirpan<\/em>, or whether it prefers the current ambiguity, in which a sacred object can become a lethal weapon. That decision will matter beyond the Nowak case, for it digs to the core of what multicultural Britain is prepared to tolerate, what it is prepared to regulate, and whether pluralism can survive without some common rules that even the most distinctive traditions must respect. In our country\u2019s restless search for cohesion, steel alone can\u2019t forge belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=310\">Chinese livestreamers are hypnotizing the West<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air was thick with incense and tension. The hall was already bustling, as men and boys gathered under the shadow of ceremonial weapons and the resonant boom of a Sikh war drum. Some looked as though they were preparing for battle, wearing empty bandoliers and tactical camouflage vests, four-foot swords hanging by their sides. 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