We Hear Of Their Revolts And
Disorders Down To 1319, Under Which Date Mirkhond Says That There Had Been
One-And-Twenty Fights With Them In Four Years.
Again we hear of them in
1336 about Herat, whilst in Baber's time they turn up as Nukdari, fairly
established as tribes in the mountainous tracts of Karnud and Ghur, west
of Kabul, and coupled with the Hazaras, who still survive both in name and
character.
"Among both," says Baber, "there are some who speak the Mongol
language." Hazaras and Takdaris (read Nukdaris) again occur coupled in
the History of Sind. (See Elliot, I. 303-304.) [On the struggle
against Timur of Toumen, veteran chief of the Nikoudrians (1383-84), see
Major David Price's Mahommedan History, London, 1821, vol. iii. pp.
47-49, H. C.] In maps of the 17th century, as of Hondius and Blaeuw, we
find the mountains north of Kabul termed Nochdarizari, in which we cannot
miss the combination Nigudar-Hazarah, whencesoever it was got. The Hazaras
are eminently Mongol in feature to this day, and it is very probable that
they or some part of them are the descendants of the Karaunahs or the
Nigudaris, or of both, and that the origination of the bands so called,
from the scum of the Mongol inundation, is thus in degree confirmed. The
Hazaras generally are said to speak an old dialect of Persian. But one
tribe in Western Afghanistan retains both the name of Mongols and a
language of which six-sevenths (judging from a vocabulary published by
Major Leech) appear to be Mongol.
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