Editing Kalat, Balochistan (section)

== Demographics ==
The population is mostly [[Muslim]] (97 percent), with a [[Hindu]] population of three percent,<ref>{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OvHkAAAAMAAJ&q=hindu+baloch+kalat|quote= Almost all the people are Muslim ; the largest Hindu minorities are in the Sibi (9%) and Kalat (2%) districts.| title = Encyclopædia Britannica: a new survey of universal knowledge, Volume 3 |year= 1964|publisher = Encyclopœdia Britannica|access-date = 2008-08-17}}</ref> out of which many are [[Hindkowan]] merchants who regard Kalat as their homeland.<ref>{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yuyZAAAAIAAJ&q=kalat+hindu+merchants+marri|quote= ...is in the hands of a small caste of Hindu merchants. These Hindus are Hindko-speaking and regard Kalat as their homeland, where they generally keep their families and go for some months every year to visit and to obtain supplies. While in the Marri area, they must be under the protection of a local Marri chief or the sardar himself.| title = Viking fund publications in anthropology, Issue 43|year= 1966|publisher = Viking Fund|access-date = 2008-08-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=K3pCAAAAYAAJ&q=kalat+hindko+hindu|quote= ...is in the hands of a small caste of Hindu merchants. These Hindus are Hindko-speaking and regard Kalat as their homeland, where they generally keep their families and go for some months every year to visit and to obtain supplies. While in the Marri area, they must be under the protection of a local Marri chief or the sardar himself.| title = The social organization of the Marri Baluch|year= 1977|publisher = Indus Publications |access-date = 2008-08-17}}</ref>

{{blockquote|{{smaller|''"The Hindus of [[Kalat, Pakistan|Kalat town]] — undoubtedly among the oldest in the community — claim to be offshoots of the mysterious Sewa dynasty that ruled in Kalat centuries before the [[Brahui people|Brahui]] Confederacy took shape. But though the [[Bhatia caste|Bhatia]] of [[Las Bela (princely state)|Las Bela]] punctiliously refer their advent to the year 708 A.D., and [[Lehri tribe|the Hindus of Lahri]] tell in all good faith of their journeyings from [[Aleppo]] with [[Mir Chakar Rind|Chakar the Rind]], the early history of these old Hindu families is hopelessly befogged. Everything, however, seems to point to the western [[Punjab|Panjab]] and [[Sindh|Sind]] as the countries from which most of them came, though isolated families in [[Nushki District|Nushki]] may have immigrated by way of [[Afghanistan]], and a few others may have wandered in from the far corners of [[India]]. Originally they may have been as diverse as the villages from which they came and the dates of their coming. Today the old Hindu families form a more or less homogeneous community. In particular customs no doubt they vary considerably; but common environment has set its common mark on them all. And it is in the effect of an alien environment on Hindus and [[Hindu caste]] that the main interest in these old trading families of Baluchistan is centred."''}}
|Excerpt from the [[Census of India]]|1911 AD<ref name="baluchistan1911A">{{cite web |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.25393763 |jstor=ssaoa.crl.25393763 |access-date=24 November 2024 |title=Census of India 1911. Vol. 4, Baluchistan : pt. 1, Report; pt. 2, Tables. |author1=India Census Commissioner |year=1911 |volume=4 |pages=175}}</ref>}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Religious groups in Kalat City (1941 & 2017)
! rowspan="2" |[[Religion in Pakistan|Religious]]<br>group
! colspan="2" |1941<ref name="Census1941">{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/saoa/censusofindia1941-28216851/|title=CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME XIV BALUCHISTAN|access-date=27 January 2023}}</ref>{{rp|13–14}}
! colspan="2" |2017<ref name="Census2017B">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/content/final-results-census-2017|title=Final Results (Census-2017)|access-date=27 January 2023}}</ref><ref name="Census2017C">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files/population/2017/results/10509.pdf|title=District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017) TABLE 9 - POPULATION BY SEX, RELIGION AND RURAL/URBAN|access-date=27 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
![[Population|{{abbr|Pop.|Population}}]]
!{{Abbr|%|percentage}}
!{{abbr|Pop.|Population}}
!{{Abbr|%|percentage}}
|-
| [[Islam]] [[File:Star and Crescent.svg|15px]]
| 2,049
| {{Percentage | 2049 | 2463 | 2 }}
| 35,547
| {{Percentage | 35547 | 36796 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Hinduism]] [[File:Om.svg|15px]]
| 381
| {{Percentage | 381 | 2463 | 2 }}
| 1,234
| {{Percentage | 1234 | 36796 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Sikhism]] [[File:Khanda.svg|15px]]
| 33
| {{Percentage | 33 | 2463 | 2 }}
| {{N/a}}
| {{N/a}}
|-
| [[Christianity]] [[File:Christian cross.svg|15px]]
| 0
| {{Percentage | 0 | 2463 | 2 }}
| 13
| {{Percentage | 13 | 36796 | 2 }}
|-
| [[Ahmadiyya]] [[File:Liwa-e-Ahmadiyya_1-2.svg|15px]]
| {{N/a}}
| {{N/a}}
| 2
| {{Percentage | 2 | 36796 | 2 }}
|-
! Total population
! 2,463
! {{Percentage | 2463 | 2463 | 2 }}
! 36,796
! {{Percentage | 36796 | 36796 | 2 }}
|}