generally if you wear a turban, you're a sikh.
Although there are clean shaven, cut hair, punjabi sikhs also.
If you are a Singh, you are a Sikh.
I have had this question for some time. Why are most Sikhs named Singh which I understand means lion? And how are they distinguished from one another if their names are all the same?
"generally if you wear a turban, you're a sikh."
No. Generally if you wear a turban, it means you are from a warrior class of North India. It happened that Sikhs wear turban religiously and are associated with it. But the fact is that Rajputs wore turban long before Sikhism.
My point is that you can't use dress as features of a religious community. Look at Rajputs from Rajasthan. They all wear turban and none of them are Sikhs.
Wrong!
Tibetians, Afghans, Arabs, Non Sikh Indians like haryanvi, up,mp etc wear turbans. some do so in religious ceremonies...other out of living in harsh conditions, jobs.