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'''Chhimba (chhipa, Tonk Kshtariya)''' are variously described as a [[Kshatriya]] [[caste system in India|caste]] community and a [[Sikhism|Sikh]] clan of India.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies |editor1-first=Pashaura |editor1-last=Singh |editor2-first=Louis E. |editor2-last=Fenech |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19100-411-7 |first=Joginder |last=Singh |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7YwNAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84 |chapter=Sikhs In Independent India |page=84}}</ref><br />
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Their traditional occupation in the [[Samba district]] of India was dying and hand-printing [[calico]] fabric. It was probably some of these people who moved to areas of [[Himachal Pradesh]], where they created a somewhat different style of printing cloth that was much favoured by the [[Gaddi people]] of the region.<ref>{{cite book |title=Textiles, Costumes, and Ornaments of the Western Himalaya |first=Omacanda |last=Hāṇḍā |publisher=Indus Publishing |year=1998 |isbn=978-8-17387-076-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFPnh9B5zncC&pg=PA132 |pages=132–134}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Historical Dictionary of Sikhism |first1=Louis E. |last1=Fenech |first2=W. H. |last2=McLeod |authorlink2=W. H. McLeod |edition=3rd |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-44223-601-1 |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xajcAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA82}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Sikh communities]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
[[Category:Social groups of Himachal Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Textile industry of India]]<br />
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