Sikhs in California vote on independence from India

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Khalistan doesn't exist on any map, but it is an imagined homeland for some Sikhs who dream of their own nation separate from India. The calls for an independent state have grown more urgent among Sikhs in the wake of last year's foiled assassination attempt of a Sikh activist on U.S. soil. The Justice Department charged an Indian national in the plot.