Pahari people

The Pahari people (Pahāṛī; ), 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.