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This article is an extract from <br/>

PANJAB CASTES <br/>

SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. <br/>

Being a reprint of the chapter on <br/>
The Races, Castes and Tribes of <br/>
the People in the Report on the <br/>
Census of the Panjab published <br/>
in ''' 1883 ''' by the late Sir Denzil <br/>
Ibbetson, KCSI <br/>

Lahore : <br/>

Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, <br/>

1916. <br/>
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=Hazaras =

(Caste No. 183)
Besides the 38 Hazaras shown
for the Peshawar district in table VINA., 44 others have returned themselves
as Hazara Pathans, of whom 39 are in Kohat. But this certainly does not
represent the whole number of Hazaras who were in the Panjab at the
time of the Census, and it is probable that most of them have returned
themselves as Pathans simply, without specifying any tribe. The Hazaras
of Kabul have abeady been noticed in section 396. They hold the Parapo
misus of the ancients, extending from Kabul and Ghazni to Hirat, and from
Kandahar to Balkh. They are almost certainly Mongol Tartars, and were
settled in their present abodes by Changiz Khan. They have now almost
wholly lost their Mongol speech, but retain the physical and physiognomic
characters of the race, and are '^ as pure Mongols as when they settled 600
years ago with their famihes, their flocks, and their worldly possessions.'
They intermarry only among themselves, and in the interior of their territory
are almost wholly independent. They are des -ribed at length by Dr. Bellew
in Chapter XIN of his races of Afghanistan. General Cunningham says
that in Babar's time the Karluki (? Karlaghi) Hazaras held the country on
both banks of the Sohan in Ruwalpindi ; and he refers to them the well
known coins of Sri Hasan Karluki of the bull and horseman type, which he
as .'ribes to the beginning of the 13th century. But the descendants of these
people are apparently returned as Turks and not as Hazaras, and they will,
be discussed later on under the former head. Their history in the Ilazara
district has been sketched in section 412. Dr. Bellew describes the Hazaras
as a —

very simple-uuuJcd people, and very much in the hands of their priest. They are for the
most part entirely illiterate, are governed by tribal and clan chiefs whose authority over their
people is absolute, and they are generally very poor and hardy. Many thousands of them come
•' down to the Panjab every cold season in seareh of labOur either on the roads, or as well-sinkers,
wall-buildcrs, &c. In their own country they have the reputation of being a brave and hardy
race, and amongst the Afghans they are considei-ed a faithful, industrious and intelligent people
as servants. Many thousands of them find employment at Kabul and Ghazni and Kandahar
during the winter months as labourers — in the two former cities mainly in removing the snow from
the house-tops and streets. In consequence of their being heretics, the Sunui Afghans hold them
in slavery, and in most of the larger towns the servant-maids are purchased slaves of this people.

They are all Shiahs.