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Garhwali

Garhwali, the natives of British and Independent Garhwal, West Thibet, who are of Thibetan (Mongolic) stock, but Aryan (Caucasic) speech, now speaking Neo-Sanskritic dialects closely related to Kashmiri. Here are also the Rongbo, and north of them the Kohli, Kakka, Gakar, A van, and Janju peoples, all of mixed Indo-Thibetan stock, in which the Hindu element largely prevails. The native Rajputs, collectively known as Rhasiya, have lost caste by mixture with non-Aryan populations. The Avans (Awans) are supposed by some ethnologists to be descended of the Yavana - that is, Ionians or Greeks, settled in this region at the time of the Macedonian invasion.