Hazaragi Culture Hazaragi/Dari refers to the culture of the Hazara people, who live primarily in the Hazarajat region of central
Afghanistan, and the Balochistan province
of Pakistan, and elsewhere around the world
where the Hazara diaspora is
settled as part of the wider Afghan.
The culture
of the Hazara people is rich in heritage, with many unique customs and
traditions, and shares influences with Persian, Mongol and
various Central Asian cultures. The Hazarajat region has an
ancient history and was, at different periods, home to the Greco-Buddhist, and Timurid civilisations, and later the Ghorid and Ghaznavid dynasties. Later in the
early 13th century, the Mongols, led by Genghis Khan, settled in the region. Each
of these civilisations left visible imprints on the region's local culture. The
Hazara people are peoples who settled in the region in the thirteenth
century, which attributes their Mongloid physical features and also the various
Mongol influences today present in Hazaragi culture and language. According to
genetic evidence, the ethnic group has "patrimonial relations" to Mongol peoples, and at the same time is also
related to neighboring Persianate peoples thus making them a distinct ethnic
group.
The Hazara
make up ten percent of Afghanistan's population. Their native Hazaragi language is a variation of
the Dari dialect of
the Persian language spoken
in Afghanistan. The Hazara were traditionally pastoral farmers active in herding
in the central and southeastern highlands of Afghanistan. They primarily belong
to the Shi'a denomination
of Islam, following either the Twelver or Ismaili sects, with a small minority
of Sunnis. There has been frequent
discrimination against them due to sectarian and ethnic reasons. During the
1940s, the Pashtun dominated government in Kabul implemented a variety of
initiatives which sought to Pashtunize the ethnic group and
suppress Hazara culture.
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