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The Pathans of Sri Lanka were a Muslim community in Sri Lanka of Pashtun ancestry. [2] Most of them left in the 20th century, however a small number of families living in the country still claim Pathan ancestry.
Pashtuns in Bangladesh are descendants of Pashtun emigrants who settled into Bangladesh during the Pathan rule of the Bengal Sultanate under the Karrani dynasty. [54] Additional Pashtun communities of South Asia are also the Pathans of Sri Lanka, who are believed to have origins from Pathans who settled in Batticaloa, initially arriving for ...
A map of Pashtun tribes [229] A prominent institution of the Pashtun people is the intricate system of tribes. [230] The tribal system has several levels of organization: the tribe they are in is from four 'greater' tribal groups: the Sarbani, the Bettani, the Gharghashti, and the Karlani. [231]
Dravidians form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in southern India, the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka and a small pocket of Pakistan. [12] The Iranic peoples also have a significant presence in South Asia, the large majority of whom are located in Afghanistan and the northwestern and western parts of Pakistan.
While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
English: Map of Sri Lanka showing majority ethnicity by DS Division according 2012 census. Date: ... Demographics of Sri Lanka; Sinhalese people; Global file usage.
He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and is an ethnic Pashtun of the Kakar tribe. Zareen Khan – Indian actress who made her debut in Bollywood. She has Pashtun ancestry from her father's side and originally from Swat; Aamir Khan – famous Bollywood actor, his family has roots from Herat in Afghanistan, he belongs to the Khan-Hussain family.
Map of the Sur Empire at its height Sur Empire (1538/1540—1556), founded by Sher Shah Suri, a Pashtun military and political figure who belonged to the Sur tribe of Kakars. [35] The Sur dynasty ousted the Mughals in north India and controlled areas encompassing, Pakistan, northern India and up to Bengal , with Delhi as its capital.