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Ethnic Pashtun ancestry
- Pathans in India or simply known as Pathans are citizens or residents of India who are of ethnic Pashtun ancestry.
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The actor, of Punjabi descent, identified as a Hindu Pathan and spoke Pashto. [ 22 ] The term "Hindu Pathan" is used for Hindus who hailed or were born in the predominately Pashtun regions of British India (now Pakistan), [ 23 ][ 24 ] as well as those who arrived from Afghanistan. [ 25 ]
Pathan isn't used for Pashtun speakers that are born raised and/or reside in Afghanistan. Pathan is used for pashtun speaking Indian and Pakistanis. There's a distinction in the dialect of their pashto and Afghani pashto.
The name “Pathan” originates from the Persian word “Patğân,” which roughly translates to “hero” or “warrior.” It is a term used to describe the Pashtun people, an ethnic group native to Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan.
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- PASHTUNS (PATHANS) The Pashtuns (Pathans) are an ethnic group that live in western and southern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan and whose homeland is in the valleys of Hindu Kush.
- Pashtun Population. There are about 60-70 million Pashtun with around 43 million in Pakistan, 15.5 million in Afghanistan and a million or so more scattered in a dozen or so countries, including India, the U.S., Finland and Germany.
- Homeland and Territory of the Pashtuns. The area occupied by the Pashtuns, sometimes called Pashtunland, stretches roughly from Kabul in the west to Herat in the north in Afghanistan and to the Indus River in the east and Quetta in the south in Pakistan.
- North-West Frontier Province. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province) is closely identified with Pashtuns. It is a swath of land that runs along the northern border with Afghanistan extending from the Indus River to the Hindu Kush.
It was used as an official title by the Mughals to bestow upon a Muslim similar to title of Rai to Hindus. The British followed the same tradition with the addition of "Bahadur." Secondly, the title of Pathan is also used by those Hindu Rajputs who were converted to Islam.
Pathan is a British term for Pashtun (also seen as Pushtun and Pukhtun), the people who inhabited the region along the border between British India and Afghanistan. Today they constitute the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan.
