The Bakarwal (also Bakkarwal, Bakharwal, Bakrawala and Bakerwal)

The Bakarwal of Kashmir

The Bakarwal (also Bakkarwal, Bakharwal, Bakrawala and Bakerwal) community is listed as scheduled tribes along with gujjars in jammu and kashmir in 1991. As a nomadic tribe they spread over a large part starting from pir-panjal range to hindkush to ladakh located in himalayan mountains of south Asia. They are goat herders and shepherds at […]

Gujjar-of-Kashmir

Gurjar or Gujjar of Kashmir

Gurjar or Gujjar (also transliterated as Gujar, Gujara and Gujjer) is an ethnic agriculture and pastoral community of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Although traditionally they have been involved in agriculture, Gurjars are a large heterogeneous group that is internally differentiated in terms, culture, religion, occupation and socio-economic status. The historical role of Gujjars has been […]

Hanji-of-Kashmir

Hanji’s of Kashmir

Hanji’s were living in simple Doonga boats for centuries calling it home yet the term houseboat as we now understand in relation to tourism can be assigned to this boat built on order of Akbar. We are still centuries away from story of houseboats as we see them today in between we read about Aurangzeb’s […]

Muslims-of-Kashmir

Kashmiri Muslims

Kashmiri Muslims by Ahanger HOBO Islam came to Kashmir in the very beginning through the Ladakh king Rinchen(widely known as Rinchen-Shah) who, ultimately impressed by the simple teaching of Sufi Islam from Bulbul shah, beloved poet of Kashmir and the first Muslim faqir to visit the valley, converted to Islam to consolidate his reportedly otherwise […]