The religion of the Gujjars has two endogamous religious sections and these are Hindu and Muslim. Each section is further subdivided into a number of exogamous gotra like Khatana, Chohan, Gursi, Didhar, Bhumphal, Kalarya, Parswal, Mahehria, Koli, Kautiya, Motte, Chaichi, Bhunch, Bargat, Kalas, Chhore, Ladi, Chai, Bajar and Badhana. These gotra denote it ancestry and also regulate marriage alliances. They are also aware of the varna system and place themselves along with Kshatriyas, through other communities place them a grade lower.

Hindu Gujjars
Tradition has it that the Gurjars or the Gujjars are a community with no fixed abode. A large number of Gujjars have now settled down and taken to farming. In some areas, they continue to pursue agricultural activity along with animal husbandry. Traditionally they were cattle breeders and milkmen. During the Turkish, Afghan and Persian invasions, they earned notoriety for prepping upon the dead and the wounded left in the battlefields. The Hindu Gujjars are usually vegetarian and their diet depends upon the availability of cereals. They believe in the supremacy of the conventional joint family system. They are hard working. The major life-cycle rituals commencing with the birth of a child are broadly in accordance with the Hindu customs. Traditionally, the economy of the Hindu Gujjars revolves around buffalo and cow herding and by means of agriculture.

Muslim Gujjars
Mostly Muslim Gurjars are non-vegetarian, but mutton is consumed occasionally. Marriages in Muslim Gujjars are performed nowadays in adulthood by negotiation. A distinctive feature of their marriage is that consanguineous marriages take place. Marriage is usually a set of ceremonies that are conducted both at the groom and bride`s place. The family is mostly of the extended type but at times nuclear families also come up. The inheritance of the property is from father to sons, who equally share it. Women in Muslim Gujjars have right to family rituals. She controls the family expenditure. Muslim Gujjars bury the dead and the mourning lasts for three days.

Majority of both the Hindu and Muslim Gujjars are pastorals and they make out their livelihood through the sale of milk products. They have herbs of buffaloes with which they keep on migrating from low to high and high to low attitudes during summer and winter season in search of green pastures.