Adherents
There are no official numbers, except in the 1891 census 14,001 Hindus and 46,610 Sikhs declared themselves as 'Nirankaris'. (Census of India, 1891, Vol.XX, and vol.XXI, The Punjab and its Feudatories, by E.D. Maclagan, Part II and III, Calcutta, 1892, pp. 826–9 and pp. 572–3.)
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