The Pahari people or Pahari-speaking people is a cover term for a number of heterogeneous communities inhabiting in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, and Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir who speak Pahari languages/dialects.
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👉 Pahari people (Kashmir) in the context of Ethnic groups in Pakistan
Pakistan is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country. The major Pakistani ethnolinguistic groups include Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Saraikis, Muhajirs, Balochs, Hindkowans/Hazarewals, Brahuis, and Kohistanis as well as Shina, Baltis, Kashmiris, Paharis, Chitralis, Torwalis, Hazaras, Burusho, Wakhis, Kalash, Siddis, Uzbeks, Nuristanis, Pamiris and various other smaller minorities.
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Pahari people (Kashmir) in the context of Azad Kashmiri diaspora
The Mirpuri diaspora consists of Pahari people originating from the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, now living outside that district. Migration from Mirpur started occurring in the 1920s, when many Mirpuris left for Bombay to work on merchant ships.
During the partition of British India in 1947, many Mirpuri Hindus and Mirpuri Sikhs were forced to flee to cities in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir to escape Muslim violence. The construction of the Mangla Dam by the Pakistani Government in the 1960s flooded fertile agricultural lands, forcing many Mirpuri Muslims to migrate to the United Kingdom to survive on work as labourers.