Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Pahari people, (Pahādī; Hindi and Nepali: पहाड़ी; also called Pahadi, Parbati, and including Khāsā and Chhetri, are an Indo-European ethnic group of the Himalayas living in Nepal, India, and Pakistan. In Nepal, the Pahadi constituted the single largest ethnic group at about 20,000,000, or three-fifths of the Nepalese population through the 1990s. They also constituted the majority population of the Indian States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Most Indo-Aryan Pahadi, however, identify as members of constituent subgroups and castes within the larger Pahadi community such as Chhetri and Thakuri. The name Pahadi derives from pahar, meaning "hill", and corresponds to the Himalayan Hill Region which the Pahadi inhabit. The term Pahadi may indicate contrast to the groups of Tibetan origin, and indigenous communities such as the Newar and Tharu of the Himalaya. Pahadi may also contrast geography alone, encompassing even non-Indo-Aryan ethnicities and language groups such as the Pahadi Newar community and their Newar dialect.. }
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- Pahari_people abstract "The Pahari people, (Pahādī; Hindi and Nepali: पहाड़ी; also called Pahadi, Parbati, and including Khāsā and Chhetri, are an Indo-European ethnic group of the Himalayas living in Nepal, India, and Pakistan. In Nepal, the Pahadi constituted the single largest ethnic group at about 20,000,000, or three-fifths of the Nepalese population through the 1990s. They also constituted the majority population of the Indian States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Most Indo-Aryan Pahadi, however, identify as members of constituent subgroups and castes within the larger Pahadi community such as Chhetri and Thakuri. The name Pahadi derives from pahar, meaning "hill", and corresponds to the Himalayan Hill Region which the Pahadi inhabit. The term Pahadi may indicate contrast to the groups of Tibetan origin, and indigenous communities such as the Newar and Tharu of the Himalaya. Pahadi may also contrast geography alone, encompassing even non-Indo-Aryan ethnicities and language groups such as the Pahadi Newar community and their Newar dialect.".