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|popplace = [[Rajasthan]], India
|langs = [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] • [[Rajasthani language|Rajasthani]] • [[English language|English]]. [[Urdu language|Urdu]]
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The '''Pathans of Rajasthan''' are a [[Pathan|Pathan/Pashtun]] community found in the state of [[Rajasthan]] in India.<ref name="People of India">People of India Rajasthan Volume XXXVIII Part Two edited by B.K Lavania, D. K Samanta, S K Mandal & N.N Vyas pages 747 to 749 Popular Prakashan</ref>

==History and origin==
The community are descendants of [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]] (Pathan) soldiers and adventurers who came to Rajasthan to serve in the armies of various [[Rajput]] princes. While the principality of [[Tonk (princely state)|Tonk]] was founded by [[Amir Khan (Pindari)|Ameer Khan]] in 1817, a [[Yousafzai]] Pathan, and was the only non-[[Hindu]] state in [[Rajputana]], and the community is sometimes referred to as the Tonkia Pathan. Tonk was incorporated into the Indian Union in 1948. The failure of the 1857 [[Indian mutiny]] also led to an influx of [[Rohilla]] Pathans from the [[Rohilkhand]] region. Other than [[Tonk District|Tonk]], they are also found in the districts of [[Dungarpur]], [[Pratapgarh, Rajasthan|Pratapgarh]], [[Banswara]], [[Ajmer]], [[Jaipur]], [[Bharatpur, India|Bharatpur]] and [[Udaipur]]. They have three sub-divisions, the Swati, Buneri and Bagodi. Most of the Rajasthan Pathans belong to the Yousafzai tribe. They have long since abandoned [[Pashto language|Pashto]], and now speak [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]], as well as various dialects of [[Rajasthani language|Rajasthani]].<ref name="People of India"/>

The traditional occupation of the Rajasthani Pathan was serving in the armed forces of the various states in Rajputana. Now many are employed by the state police, as government clerks, as well as in the transport industry. Some also land, especially in Tonk, and are a community of cultivators. They are entirely endogamous, very rarely marrying out of the community.<ref name="People of India"/>

Each Pathan settlement has its own community council, known as a jamaat. The head of the jamaat was historically chosen from a locally prominent family, but is now elected. If the matters concerns the Pathan community as a whole, then members of the various local jamaats come together. The Rajasthani Pathan are entirely [[Sunni]], and have been affected by the influence of the [[Tablighi Jamat]], a reformist [[Deobandi]] organization, which is active in Rajasthan.<ref name="People of India"/>

==See also==
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*[[Pashtun diaspora]]

==References==
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{{Pashtun Diaspora}}
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