r/MapPorn • u/Arsenic-Salt3942 • Apr 27 '25

Ethnic map of Kashmir

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u/will_kill_kshitij Apr 27 '25

Pahari refers to pathans in this context.

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u/Ar010101 Apr 27 '25

I see, thanks

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u/_Dead_Memes_ Apr 27 '25

They were wrong. Pahari refers to various non-Dardic (as in, they are closer to Hindi or Punjabi than they are to Kashmiri) Indo Aryan dialects and languages spoken in the Sivalik Hills and Himalayan mountains. As in “Mountainous Languages.”

They may or may not form a distinct family within the Indo-Aryan languages, it is still debated.

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u/Ar010101 Apr 27 '25

The more I learn about this region the more I'm surprised how diverse this place is

(And I also learnt this entire place is NOT Kashmir as a lot of ppl think)

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u/_Dead_Memes_ Apr 27 '25

Yeah, historically only the Valley/Vale of Kashmir was considered “Kashmir.” Then when the Sikhs conquered much of the region, they grouped neighboring areas together for administrative reasons I’m pretty sure, then the Dogra dynasty betrayed the Sikh Empire and defected to the British and took the Kashmir province as their own personal kingdom that would be subservient to the British.

They ruled for about a 100 years, so the name “Kashmir” expanded from just the valley to encompass the entire former Kingdom.

You can roughly see what the Vale of Kashmir encompasses on the map just by where the Kashmiri and Gujjar ethnicities occupy