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Hazaras: Descendants of the Mongols?

Written By The Jackmeister: Mongol History on Sunday, Apr 26, 2020 | 09:00 AM

 
The Hazara are popularly known as descendants of the Mongols, but what truth is there to this? Are they descended from troops left behind from Chinggis Khan? We discuss the possibilities here, as well as present a short overview of their later history. That was Wolfstar's song "Charge to War," check them out at the links below! Wolfstar at Reverbnation: https://www.reverbnation.com/wolfstar Wolfstar's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Wolfstar-1959259374348696/about/?ref=page_internal You can contact Wolfstar at [email protected] DONATIONS Paypal: https://paypal.me/thejackmeister?locale.x=en_US Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jackmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJackmeister/ PRIMARY SOURCES: Babur, The Bābur-nāma in English. Translated by Annette Susannah Beveridge. 1922. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44608/44608-h/44608-h.htm SECONDARY SOURCES Bacon, Elizabath E., “The Inquiry into the History of the Hazara Mongols of Afghanistan.” 1951 http://184.73.243.18:8080/jspui/bitstream/azu/3034/2/azu_acku_pamphlet_ds354_6_h3_b33_1951_w.pdf Haber, Marc, et al. “Afghanistan's Ethnic Groups Share a Y-CHromosomal heritage Structure by Historical Events.,” PLoS ONE 7 no. 3 (2012): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034288 "Hazaras," Minority Rights Group International, https://minorityrights.org/minorities/hazaras/ Monsutti, Alessandro, "Hazara ii: History," Encyclopedia Iranica, last updated March 20th, 2012. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hazara-2 Mousavi, Sayed Askar. The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study. 1998. Samreen, Farha. “The Hazaras of Afghanistan in Mughal Times,” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 70 (2009-2010): 821-829. Zawisza, Kathryn. “Genghis Khan’s Family Reunion: A Study of Hazara Unity in Afghanistan.” Academic Forum 24 (2006): 40- https://hsu.edu/uploads/pages/2006-7afgenghis.pdf Zerjal, Tatiana, et. al. “The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols,” American Journal of Human Genetics, 72 no. 3 (2003): 717-721 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929707605874 Zucchino, David and Fatima Faizi, "They are Thriving After Years of Persecution but Fear a Renewed Taliban Deal," New York Times, March 27th, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/asia/afghanistan-hazaras-taliban-peace-talks.html MUSIC USED: Cambodian Odyssey by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100585 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ “Throat singing- Tuvan Chylandyk style,” Giovanni Bortoluzzi / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Throat_singing_-_Tuvan_Chylandyk_style.ogg “Overtone Singing- Tuvan Sygyt,” Giovanni Bortoluzzi / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overtone_singing_-_Tuvan_Sygyt.ogg “Dimash-Kudaibergen- Adai-küy,” Unknown author / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dimash-Kudaibergen_-_Adai-k%C3%BCy.wav “Undertone singing,” Cassa342 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Undertone_singing.ogg Other music is provided by Epidemic Sound. http://www.epidemicsound.com #hazaras #hazaradocumentary #mongolempire