Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Gharmi or Garmi people (Tajik: Ғармӣ) are one of the original groups of Tajiks originate from the Rasht Valley in central Tajikistan. From the 1920s to 1955 there was a Gharm oblast in Tajikistan and henceforth people from central Tajikistan were known as Gharmis. During the 1950s many Gharmis were forced to migrate from central Tajikistan to the Vakhsh River Valley in western Tajikistan.