The Ramgarhia Sikhs of India

The Ramgarhia Sikhs of India, numbering approximately 1,075,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Sikh carpenter community of Punjab and Rajasthan renamed from Tarkhan after their leader Jassa Singh Ramgarhia. Carpentry, masonry, and small industry remain their principal occupations. They mostly adhere to Sikhism and Panjabi is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: South Asian Peoples
Country: India
People Cluster: South Asian Sikh
Primary Language(s): Panjabi (pan)
Primary Religion(s): Sikhism
Population: 1,075,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG048370
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sikhism
Religious Affiliation: Sikhism

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Sikhism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Panjabi
Language Family: Indo-European

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Punjabi, Eastern Speakers

Media Resources in Panjabi:

Films:
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JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film
The SaviorView Film

3 films

Bible Resources in Panjabi:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2000 Bible League International✓
Indian Revised Version✓✓

2 entries

Or check out the Panjabi bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Ramgarhia Sikhs are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live forever!
readPsalm 22:26

Pray that the lost will feel a deep hunger for God, be drawn to Him in their affliction, and find lasting satisfaction and salvation in Him alone.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that the gospel will advance among those who don’t know the good news of salvation in Jesus so that they might believe and trust in Jesus.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
read2 Corinthians 1:5

When any who might believe suffer for the sake of the gospel, ask God to deepen their understanding of His grace so that they may share it freely with those who have not received it.

Ramgarhia Across Countries (ROP3 - 113424) reported in the following countries:

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