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Pathans of India descend from different tribes and clans.Some of the common Pashtun tribes found in India including the influential Ahmadzai and others like Afridi, Barakzai, Bettani, Panni, Sulemanzai, Tareen, Kakar, Sherani, Khattak, Orakzai and the Shinwari, Yusufzai including the mighty Ghilzai, Durrani and Lodi.
In India significant Pashtun diaspora communities exist. [62] [58] While speakers of Pashto in the country number only 21,677 as of 2011, estimates of the ethnic or ancestral Pashtun population in India range from 3,200,000 [5] [63] [64] to 11,482,000, [65] to as high as double their population in Afghanistan (approximately 30 million). [66]
Most of the Pashtun region east of the Durand Line was annexed by the British in the twentieth century, and formed the North-West Frontier. The Pashtun tribal agencies along the Durand Line, further west from the North-West Frontier, formed a buffer zone between Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier of British India. Following the end of the ...
The larger number of people claiming Pashtun ancestry in India are Urdu speaking. Despite the loss of most of the Raj -era Pashtun population, India still has a community of Hindustani speakers who can trace some of their ancestry to ancient Pashtun settlers.
Pages in category "Indian people of Pashtun descent" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Pathans are an Urdu-speaking community of Pashtun descent in the Uttar Pradesh state in India [1] who form one of the largest Muslim communities in the state. [2] They are also known as Khans which is a commonly used surname amongst them; although not all those who use the surname are Pathans, for example the Khanzada community of eastern Uttar Pradesh are also commonly known as Khan.
Ghulam Sediq Wardak (Afghanistan) – Pashtun inventor who is known for more than 344 inventions; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani – one of the founders of Islamic Modernism, [10] as well as an advocate of Pan-Islamic unity in India against the British. Zemaryalai Tarzi – Pashtun archeologist; Daud Shah Saba – Ethnic Afghan (Pashtun) geologist
The Pashtun or primarily Yusufzai migrations towards Northern India could be traced to their expulsion from Kandahar due to the Turko-Mongol invasions, who were subsequently resettled in Kabul, where they were again dispelled by the Timurids and forced to settle in Swat, where they assimilated the native Dardic and Tajik Dehqan population, who ...