Dhars originally came from Bengal, These were two Bengalis Vaman Dhar and yaman Dhar brothers who use to come every year to kashmir for trade, in one winter they were held back in the valley and fancied two kashmiri pandit girls and finally married these girls this dates back to roughly to 1360 around the dhars of kashmir are direct decendents of the same dhars
AAlpana
August 4, 2004 at 11:48 PM
I feel all Dhars are originally from kashmir. Over a period of time many families may have migrated to other parts of India and settled down slowly imbibing the culture, food habits etc. of that particular region.
Hence we find Dhars amongst Gujratis and Bengalis too.
AHAmit Hakhu
June 20, 2003 at 11:35 PM
It can be various other Indians too, but some Dhars are Kashmiri - henc eit is definitely a Kashmiri name (in addition to others)
SRSanjay Raina
May 30, 2002 at 5:03 PM
Dhar is not a 100 % kashmiri last name. It can be found in gujratis and bengalis also.
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