Pahari people (Kashmir)
Pahari people or Pahari-speaking people is a term used to refer to a number of heterogeneous communities inhabiting in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, and Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir who speak the Pahari languages. == Etymology == The Jammu and Kashmir Socially Economically Backward Classes Commission constituted by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir headed by Justice GD Sharma in 2020 in its report has recommended renaming the group Pahari Speaking People (PSP) as one who speak Pothowari dialects, which falls under Lahnda Western Punjabi with the substitute nomenclature Pahari Ethnic Group (PEG) in terms of provisions to grant reservation to them as "PSP" under Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Rules 2004 and accordingly, the Jammu and Kashmir government issued instructions on October 19, 2022, and replaced 'Pahari Speaking People' with 'Pahari Ethnic Group', which tends to identify them as an ethnic group to be brought under the purview of the Scheduled Tribes under the Constitution of India.