ABSTRACT
The social evolution and changes which have taken place in the lives of the Hazara people, both inside and outside Afghanistan, have received little attention, academic or otherwise. The Hazara migrants mostly confined themselves to agriculture and animal husbandry and, contrary to their counterparts in Pakistan, rarely achieved high-ranking positions in Iranian society. On the one hand, the Hazaras had hoped to use the opportunity to secure British aid in order to avenge themselves and to improve their future status; the British on the other hand, who still hoped to succeed in Afghanistan, had sought to secure the cooperation of the Hazaras in return for protection. Contrary to the Hazaras who emigrated to Iran, the Pakistani Hazaras have maintained to a large extent a strong sense of their origin and traditional identity, along with their tribal and social structure.
