Chhimba

Chhimba are variously described as a caste community and a Sikh clan of India. ^[1]

They belongs to kshatriya varna. They learn the skills of war and 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. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Singh, Joginder (2014). "Sikhs In Independent India". In Singh, Pashaura; Fenech, Louis E. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies. Oxford University Press. p. 84. ISBN   978-0-19100-411-7.
2. Hāṇḍā, Omacanda (1998). Textiles, Costumes, and Ornaments of the Western Himalaya. Indus Publishing. pp. 132–134. ISBN   978-8-17387-076-7.
3. Fenech, Louis E.; McLeod, W. H. (2014). Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 82. ISBN   978-1-44223-601-1.