Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Afghan refugees in India are a community numbering up to 10,000. Most are recent Hindu and Sikh refugees who fled the Taliban regime and political instability in Afghanistan; they are concentrated in and around Delhi. Muslim families account for about 10% of Afghan nationals in India, although recent migration has seen a boost in numbers.Apart from citizens and expatriates, there are hundreds of Muslim communities in India who trace their ancestries back to Pashtun forefathers. Before the creation of the modern state of Afghanistan, the term Afghan was used synonymously with Pashtun, and there has been much history of Pashtuns that have lived in India. There are an estimate of 11.3 million Pashtuns in India.Currently, there are no or very few ethnic Afghans that retained their culture in India, except for a few in the remote Jammu and Kashmir region that India has control over. The North-Western Frontier Province (now called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was incorporated into British India in the late 19th century. Pashtuns were known as Afghans of British India.. }
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- Afghans_in_India abstract "Afghan refugees in India are a community numbering up to 10,000. Most are recent Hindu and Sikh refugees who fled the Taliban regime and political instability in Afghanistan; they are concentrated in and around Delhi. Muslim families account for about 10% of Afghan nationals in India, although recent migration has seen a boost in numbers.Apart from citizens and expatriates, there are hundreds of Muslim communities in India who trace their ancestries back to Pashtun forefathers. Before the creation of the modern state of Afghanistan, the term Afghan was used synonymously with Pashtun, and there has been much history of Pashtuns that have lived in India. There are an estimate of 11.3 million Pashtuns in India.Currently, there are no or very few ethnic Afghans that retained their culture in India, except for a few in the remote Jammu and Kashmir region that India has control over. The North-Western Frontier Province (now called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was incorporated into British India in the late 19th century. Pashtuns were known as Afghans of British India.".