Tags: Ethnic Group.
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 20000000 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.