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{{Short description|Community of Kargil district, Ladakh, India}}

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• Ladakh, Kargil District| languages = Purgi language

15px) Shia Islam (97.5%)

{{small|Minority Sunni Islam (2.5%)}}BOOK, Mukherjee, M. M.,weblink Exploring "The Himalayas": The Land of High Passes, Ladakh, 2017-01-30, Partridge Publishing, 978-1-4828-8630-6, en, | related_groups = Other Dardic People and Tibetan People}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}{{Use Indian English|date=March 2018}}The Purigpa are a community found in Kargil district, Ladakh, India and Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Out of 39,000 Purigpas, 38,000 are Muslim. The remaining few are mostly Buddhists. In 2011, there were 992 Buddhists among the Purigpas.WEB, Religion Data of Census 2011: XXXIII JK-HP-ST,weblink en-GB, 2020-05-18,

Social status

{{As of|2001}}, the Purigpa were classified as a Scheduled Tribe under the Indian government's reservation program of positive discrimination.WEB, Census of India: Government of India,weblink 7 March 2007, List of Scheduled Tribes, 27 November 2012, As of 2011 Population Census of India, Purigpa population stood at 39,101 with 20,119 males and 18,982 females. The adult sex ratio stood at 943 and child sex ratio at 971. They boasted a literacy rate of 67.5 per cent, which was better than the average tribal literacy rate of 50.6 per cent in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.WEB,weblink 12 Major Tribes of Jammu and Kashmir, 2019-04-05, Statistical Profile of Scheduled Tribes in India weblink

History and culture

The Purigpa have varied origins and are descendants of Tibetans and Dards. These two groups began intermingling from the 10th century onward.BOOK, Gellner, David N.,weblink Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia, Duke University Press, 2013, 978-0-8223-7730-6, 49–51, The Purigpas are primarily Shia Muslims of the Twelver sect. They were converted by preachers who arrived via Baltistan beginning in the 15th and 16th centuries.BOOK, Mukherjee, M. M.,weblink Exploring "The Himalayas": The Land of High Passes, Ladakh, 2017-01-30, Partridge Publishing, 978-1-4828-8630-6, en,

See also

• Kargil district
• Purgi language
• Balti people

References

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