Jaghori (Hazara tribe)

Jaghori (Dari: جاغوری‎), is a tribe of Hazara people in Afghanistan, who mostly inhabit in Jaghori District of Ghazni Province. Some Jaghori Hazaras also live in Pakistan they form the majority of the Hazaras in Quetta.

Sima Samar is a Jaghori Hazara politician woman

Divisions

Hazara researcher Muhammad Isa Gharjistani identified four major branches of the Jaghori in 1989: the Baighani (or Ata), Yazdari (Ezdari), Baghocari, and the Gari.[1] However, not all branches are originally Turkic or Mongol background. The Yazdari, Baghocari and the Gari belonging originally to the pre-Mongol population, being of Iranian stock with Yazdari and Gari once being Ismaeli Shias following the doctrine of the Sevener closely related with the Ormur and Baraki Barak people. In the 16th and 17th century, they were culturally and confessionally absorbed by Turko-Mongolian Jaghoris who started to play a more important political role on local level.

History

The Jaghori are referenced in 1881 CE as being led by a Chief Safdar Ali, and it is noted that they had received a khillit and been conciliated by Amir Abdur Rahman.[2]

In the Hazara Pioneers, the Hazara unit in British army, was raised in 1904 by Major Claude Jacob (Later Field Marshal Sir Claude Jacob) in Quetta, British Balochistan Agency. Its class composition had two out of four companies comprising Jaghoris.

Famous people from Jaghori Hazaras

• Sardar Yazdan Khan
• General Musa Khan Hazara
• Muhammad al-Fayadh
• Akram Yari
• Sima Samar
• Shah Gul Rezai
• Saira Batool
• Younus Changezi
• Mohsin Changezi

See also

• List of Hazara tribes
• Hazara people
• Jaghori District

References

1. Robert L. Canfield (2010). Ethnicity, Authority and Power in Central Asia: New Games Great and Small. Taylor & Francis US. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-415-78069-8.
2. Ludwig W. Adamec . Historical and political who's who of Afghanistan. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1975. ISBN 3-201-00921-0, ISBN 978-3-201-00921-8