More than 60 percent of Sikhs belong to the Jat caste, which is a rural caste. The Khatri and Arora castes, both mercantile castes, form a very small minority, though they are influential within the Sikh community.

Does Sikhism have caste?

Caste is still practiced in the Sikh community, despite Guru Nanak's calls for treating everyone equally in Sri Granth Sahib. ... Along with Guru Nanak, other Sikh gurus had also denounced the hierarchy of the caste system, however, they all belonged to the same caste, the Khatris.

What is the caste system Sikhism?

How does Sikhism view the caste system? ... In the gurdwara, there is no discrimination based on caste though even in the gurdwara, the Sikh reformers had to fight and defeat some upper caste priests in the early part of the twentieth century who had started reintroducing the Brahmanical caste practices against the Dalits.