The Naqqal are a Muslim community found in the state of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

and

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in India. They are also known as the Kashmiri Bhand and recently as

Kashmiri Shaikh Kashmiri Shaikh or Kashmiri Sheikh () is a Muslim community, who mainly live in the Kashmir and those who migrated to what is now Pakistani Punjab. The Kashmiri Shaikhs are considered to be a clan of Kashmiri origin also found predominantly i ...

. The Naqqal are a sub-group within the larger

Bhand Bhānds (Devanagari: भांड; Urdu: بھانڈ, Gurmukhi: ਭੰਡ, Bengali: ভাঁড়) are the traditional folk entertainers of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. In India and Nepal, the Bahand are now an endogamous Hindu and M ...

community.

References

Muslim communities of India {{India-ethno-stub