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Peshawari people
Residents of Peshawar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peshawaris, also known as Peshoris (Hindko: پشوری)[1] and Kharay (Pashto: خارے, romanized: Xāryān, lit. 'city dwellers'), are the indigenous urban Hindko-speaking community[2][3][4] originating from and native to the city of Peshawar, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[5] The dialect of Hindko spoken in the Peshawari households is known as the Peshori Hindko, or simply Peshori, which also serves as the standardised literary dialect of the Hindko language.[6]
Peshoris have inhabited Peshawar for thousands of years,[5] and formed majority in the city until the 1960s.[7] Today they are a minority ethnic group mostly confined to the historic Walled City (Androon Shehr), owing to the rural-to-urban migration of rural Pashtuns into the city, linguistic shift to Pashto and Urdu as well as the influx of Afghan refugees following the Soviet-Afghan War, among other factors.[8][9][10] They constitute 5.5% of the urban population of Peshawar, or around 105,000 people (this number only reflects the fraction of total city population that speaks Hindko as first language, thus neglecting a significant fragment of Peshoris, especially youth members - which has shifted to Urdu as the primary tongue, leading to an overall underestimation[11]), according to the 2023 Census of Pakistan.[12]
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Culture
Similar to the widely recognised Pashtunwali tradition or tribal code of honour of Pashtuns, the Peshoris adhere to an urban cultural code known as Peshoritop (Hindko: پشوری پن), which encapsulates their distinct identity and social practices. This code, rooted in the traditions of Peshawar, emphasises four key principles:[10]
- Storytelling
- Hospitality
- Self-esteem
- Hyper-social Community Structure[7]
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Diaspora
Notable people
- Putras Bukhari[1]
- Dilip Kumar[13]
- Ismail Gulgee[1]
- Farigh Bukhari[1]
- Shah Rukh Khan[10]
- Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain[14]
- Syed Shafaat Ali[15]
- Z. A. Bukhari[16]
- Ahmad Ali Saayein[17]
- Dr. Elahi Akhtar Baksh Awan[18]
- Haji Muhammad Adeel[19]
- Ghulam Ahmad Bilour[20]
- Malik Tariq Awan[21]
- Syed Qasim Ali Shah[22]
- Raj Kapoor[23]
- Khatir Ghaznavi[24]
- Raza Hamdani[25]
- F. C. Kohli[26]
- Maulana Abdur Rahim Popalzai[27]
- Anil K. Chopra[28]
- Abdur Rehman Peshawari[29]
- General Yahya Khan[30]
- Mirza Mahmood Sarhadi[31]
- Rubina Khalid[32]
- Afzal Bangash[33]
- Mulk Raj Anand[23]
- Firdous Jamal[34]
- Rasheed Naz[35]
- Zia Sarhadi[36]
- Najeebullah Anjum[37]
- Vinod Khanna[38]
- Khalida Rashid Khan[39]
- Mahjabin Qazalbash[40]
References
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