Kashmiri Pandit Surnames

I am a Dhar but when i asked about origin to my grandparents they said we are not Kashmiri.... We belongs to west Bengal.

Dhars are decedents of General Meeru pandit Dhar who was general in Mughal army.This includes Dars of Muslim community also who were forcibly converted to Islam in Pathan rule.

dar word is derived from damara, while latter is derived from udambara, the rulars of patthaninkot panjab.they had their own curancy, traced from jalandar, ludhana and hamachal.damaras were land lords of ancient Kashmir.they were king makers of Kashmir

I am working on the original castes of Kashmir. I have completed Yatoo and Tak caste only till date. At PRESENT Dar caste is under discussion.

Can anybody tell me the actual history of dar i am here confused bcoz there is no satisfying answer .plz

sarwar is pure kashmiri name...

Dar a worrior of kashmir and faught for kashmiries

Dar is a kashmari cast and actually brahmins when they accepted islam they adapted last name dar

I believe that our family migrated from Kashmir.As i heard from my grandfather and elders from my family that we were staying in moymoysing(District) which is now in Bangladesh and we came there from India's northern region.It's been said that we came there for business and till now our family is basically a business family. But here we say we are kayastha and the rest is our physics has a resemblance with the kind of north people. So may be we we Bengali Dhar have migrated from kashmir.

Dar is differeent than Dhar. Dhar is a brahmin surname found only among kashmiri Batta. Dar on the other hand are predominantly descendants of non-brahmin rural agricultural population of kashmir and are almost 99% muslims. Pronunciation of Dar is with hard D and is pronounced as Daar in kashmiri. Dhar is totally different and is pronounced with soft D and liguistically it is impossible for Dar and Dhar to be of the same origin. I have never seen in my life any kashmiri muslim who has surname of Dhar , they are just Dar. And a very important thing about Dar mulims kashmiris is that they are almost all agriculturists and quite agressive in their character, the closest tribe to them is Lone which is another kashmiri muslim kram also found chiefly in villages of kashmir doing agriculture. I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind that both Dar and Lone are descended from ancient original dardic population of kashmir valley and hence they have agressive characters like all other dardic tribes found in gilgit and chitral and pashtun lands.