Short Abstract
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The Pahari people, also known as the Pahari-ethnic community , are an ethnolinguistic ethnic group found in Jammu and Kashmir, India. There are two major categories to which they belong. In the first Linguistic Survey of India, G.A. Grierson categorised five primary Pahari languages as Western Pahari, which are spoken by the majority of the Pahari people. In Jammu and Kashmir, Poonch and Rajouri Districts in Jammu region and Baramulla and Kupwara Districts in Kashmir valley speaks Potwari-Pahari dialect although they call themselves 'Pahari ethnic community.' Ethnically Pahari’s are Indo-Aryan people who have traditionally lived in a certain mountain range of Jammu and Kashmir. The present paper focussed on who are Pahari’s, their reservation status in Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and their demand for Scheduled Tribe. The paper has specially focused on Impact of Pahari Status in Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and their demand for ST Status .
