Maghi is the Sikh observance most obviously fused with the agricultural year, and Punjabis do not treat that as a problem. It falls in mid-January, the day after Lohri, and commemorates the forty Sikhs who died at Khidrana in 1705 after returning to the Guru they had disavowed. Hundreds of thousands bathe in the sarovar at Sri Muktsar Sahib in genuinely painful cold, pay respects at the shrine of the Chali Mukte, and then attend one of the largest cattle and agricultural fairs in the region, which historically doubled as the season's big political rally. Sikh reformers periodically object that a martyrdom anniversary should not share a field with a livestock auction and a political stage. Nobody has ever won that argument, and the pattern — a shrine, a fair, and a rally in the same three days — is how most Punjabi religious observance has always been organised.