 However it is estimated there are around 700,000 - 900,000 Sikhs living in the uk 

Sikhs and Britain have a long and storied history.Decades before the last Sikh King, Duleep Singh, stepped onto British soil in the middle of the 19th century, there had been Anglo-Sikh contact as far back as the 1800s in the Punjab with his father Maharaja Ranjit Singh.Since then, even though this relationship has changed in nature many times, both communities have left a permanent mark on each other.