Peshawari people
Residents of Peshawar
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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 standardized literary dialect of the Hindko language.[6]
Peshoris have inhabited Peshawar for thousands of years,[5] and formed a 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]
Culture
Similar to the widely recognised Pashtunwali tradition or tribal code of honor 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, emphasizes four key principles:[10]
- Storytelling
- Hospitality
- Self-esteem
- Hyper-social Community Structure[7]
Notable people
- Putras Bukhari[1]
- Dilip Kumar[13]
- Ismail Gulgee[1]
- Farigh Bukhari[1]
- Shah Rukh Khan[10]
- Anil Kapoor[14]
- Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain[15]
- Dr. Muhammad Rehman[16]
- Abdul Basit (diplomat)[17]
- Syed Shafaat Ali[18]
- Abdur Rauf Seemab[19]
- Z. A. Bukhari[20]
- Ahmad Ali Saayein[21]
- Haji Muhammad Adeel[22]
- Ghulam Ahmad Bilour[23]
- Iqbal Zafar Jhagra[24]
- Qazi Anwar[25]
- Malik Tariq Awan[26]
- Syed Qasim Ali Shah[27]
- Raj Kapoor[28]
- Khatir Ghaznavi[29]
- F. C. Kohli[30]
- Maulana Abdur Rahim Popalzai[31]
- Anil K. Chopra[32]
- Abdur Rehman Peshawari[33]
- General Yahya Khan[34]
- Rubina Khalid[35]
- Afzal Bangash[36]
- Mulk Raj Anand[28]
- Firdous Jamal[37]
- Rasheed Naz[38]
- Zia Sarhadi[39]
- Najeebullah Anjum[40]
- Iftikhar Qaisar[41]
- Vinod Khanna[42]
- Khalida Rashid Khan[43]
- Mahjabin Qazalbash[44]
- Kundan Lal Jaggi[45]
- Kundan Lal Gujral[46]
- Bushra Farrukh[47]
- Umar Daraz Khallil[48]
- Mehr Chand Khanna[49]
- Rajni Kaul[50]
- Hari Kishan Talwar[51]
