The implications of ethnic division in Afghanistan, with particular reference to the Hazara Mongols

Thesis

The study of Afghanistan has been more limited than that of other areas of the Moslem world. Afghanistan tends to fall outside the neat categories of Middle East, South Asia or Central Asia, utilised by historians and social scientists. Indeed, up until the nineteenth century, the area was only rarely penetrated by western travellers or scholars and many were hampered in their investigations by a hostile or inaccessible situation. The accounts of this period were often written by European ...

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Authors: Jones, SA

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-1ad1rrqn9
• Type of award: MLitt
• Level of award: Masters
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Hazara Mongols; Ethnology; Afghanistan; ethnic division; Hazāras; Ethnic relations; Mongols
• Subjects: Ethnology -- Afghanistan; Hazāras -- Afghanistan; Afghanistan -- Ethnic relations