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 Tansen is the capital of Palpa district in the Lumbini province. It used to be the capital of Magar kingdom. Magar is an ethnic minority that occupies 7% of the population in Nepal, which is the third largest. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language like Newar, Gurung, and Tamang.

 

It was conquered by the Shah dynasty of Pahari Hindus from Gorkha Bazar in 18th century. Paharis are the Indo-Aryans living in the Hill region of Nepal and speaking the national language of Napali. Under the Shah dynasty, Tansen transformed into a trading outpost of Newaris from Kathmandu valley.

 

Reflecting the above-mentioned history, people of Tansen is a mix of Paharis, Magars and Newaris. I suppose shops are mostly run by Newaris.

The Kalasha or Kalash, are a Dardic Indo-Aryan indigenous people residing in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalasha language, from the Dardic family of the Indo-Aryan branch. They are considered unique among the peoples of Pakistan. They are also considered to be Pakistan's smallest ethnoreligious group, practising a religion which some scholars characterise as a form of animism, and other academics as "a form of ancient Hinduism".

 

The Kalash are considered to be an indigenous people of Asia, with their ancestors migrating to Afghanistan from a distant place in South Asia, which the Kalash call “Tsiyam” in their folk songs and epics. Some of the Kalash traditions consider the various Kalash people to have been migrants or refugees. They are also considered to have been either descendants of foreign people, Gandhari people and the Indians of eastern Afghanistan. Based on their shared genetic drift, it is considered that they may be an ancient drifted North Eurasian stock.

 

The Kalash of Chitral have maintained their own separate cultural traditions.