ハザラ族の起源に關する諸問題 (羽田先生追悼號)

Abstract

The present article is a shorthanded version of the author's lecture delivered at a meeting of The Society of Oriental Researches, Kyoto, in January, 1955. The author made extensive trips in Afghanishan in 1954, in the course of which he visited the mountainous home of the Hazara in the central Hindukush where he spent some time among this hitherto little known people. The author introduces the generally accepted view on their origin, i.e., the Mongol origin, and proceeds to describe the landscape of the Hazarajat. Next he refers briefly to the Hazaragi or the language of the Hazara and to the supposedly aboriginal people, the Barbars. The author's own observations of the life of the Hazaras are also mentioned, and he seems to entertain the view that, regardless of their origin (nomadic Mongols or others), their life is largely agricultural, while their social relations feudalistic. There is appended a summary of the discussion which took place after his lecture. In this we find various vestiges of the feudalistic system.