Haksar is a

Kashmiri Pandit The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region ...

surname and clan. They are native to the

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within the

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Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to: * Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent * Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory * Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...

and they have a long tradition of

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based on fluency in a link language - Persian under the Mughuls and English under the

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. In light of this fact, the Haksar family historically became a prominent administrative family in other parts of India, namely in

Indore Indore () is the largest and most populous Cities in India, city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of both Indore District and Indore Division. It is also considered as an education hub of the state and is t ...

and

Gwalior Gwalior() is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities. Located south of Delhi, the capital city of India, from Agra and from Bhopal, the s ...

Notable people

*Sir

Kailash Narain Haksar Colonel Sir Kailash Narain Haksar CIE (20 February 1878 – 1953, Calcutta), also spelled Kailas Narayan Haksar, was Minister of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1942 to 1944, and a former minister in Gwalior State. He was the son ...

(1878–1953), Indian minister * P. N. Haksar (1913–1998), Indian minister * Ajit Narain Haksar (1925–2005), Indian businessman * A. N. D. Haksar (born 1933), Indian diplomat and prominent translator of Sanskrit classics

References

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