Sikh turban

Sikh Turban Media

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Sikh man wearing a dastar or pagh
Preserved Dastar relic of Guru Gobind Singh
Contemporary or near-contemporary painting of Guru Hargobind
Nihang Abchal Nagar (Nihangs from Hazur Sahib), 1844. Shows turban-wearing Sikh soldiers with chakrams.
Sikhs are easily recognized by their distinctive turbans, as well as their other articles of faith.
The original Sikh turban of the Khalsa Fauj, the Dastar Bunga. The Nihang's pharla is being covered at the tip of the turban.
Sikh soldiers with Puratan Nok Paggs and Pharlas.
Chand Tora Dumalla with many shaster
Indian troops man a Bren gun during the Western Desert Campaign in World War II. The Sikh soldier is wearing a dastār, his non-Sikh companion is wearing a Brodie steel helmet
Officer cadets of the Royal Military College of Canada wearing a dastār. Sikh members of the Canadian Armed Forces are permitted to wear the dastār in most situations.

The Sikh men and women, who keep five articles of faith known as the Five Ks , wear the turban to cover their long, uncut hair (kesh). The Sikhs regard the turban as an important part of the unique Sikh identity. After the ninth Sikh Guru, Tegh Bahadur, was sentenced to death by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru gave five articles of faith, one of which is uncut hair, which the turban does cover.