Pahari people
| Regions with significant populations | |
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 India |
Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Punjab[1] |
 Nepal |
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 Pakistan |
Azad Kashmir, Galliat hill tract of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Languages | |
| Pahari languages, also Hindi and Urdu | |
| Religion | |
 Hinduism, Shamanism, Islam |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
| Nepali (Madhesi and Himali), Indian (Simla, Kashmiri)[4][5] | |
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The Pahari people (Pahāṛī; पहाड़ी), also called Pahadi, is a wide term applied to social groups of Pahari speaking Indo-Aryan people of the Himalayas living in Nepal, India and Pakistan. They constitute the majority population of the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In Jammu and Kashmir they are the third largest socio-linguistic group. Pahari people form a plurality in Nepal also, where nearly one-third of people are Pahari.
The name Pahari derives from Pahar (पहाड़), meaning "hill", referring to the Himalayan Hill Region in India, Nepal and Pakistan which the Pahari inhabit. The term Pahari may be used to contrast with the groups of Tibetan origin, Indian origin and indigenous communities such as Bhotiyas of the Himalayas.[citation needed]
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ "Ethnic Groups". Nepal: A country study (Andrea Matles Savada, editor). Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress of the USA (1991). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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Khas and Newars are the dominant nations; about one third of Madhesi people are of Indian ancestry while the other two thirds are indigenous.
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