A member of an Indo-Aryan ethnic group primarily found in parts of India and Pakistan, traditionally shepherds and herders.
From Sanskrit or Indo-Aryan roots; the word is self-identified by the Gujar people themselves. The etymology is debated among scholars, possibly relating to 'go' (cattle in Sanskrit). The term has been used for over 1000 years.
The Gujars are one of India's least-known groups despite numbering in the millions, and they've maintained their pastoral traditions for millennia while empires rose and fell around them — they're living history of how older economic systems persist alongside modern ones.
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