[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 8.2.6 # The Rashīdī History 8.2.6 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 8.2.6 - **Language:** English ### [8.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.2.6) Moreover, we may assume that the rank and file of the Moghuls would not have the same opportunities for rapidly connecting themselves in blood relationship with their neighbours; consequently the distinctive features of their race would take longer to undermine. As already observed, the life of the steppes and the comparative isolation of the aúl, would tend rather to preserve the purity of the race. It may not be possible to form an estimate of the length of time that would be needed to bring about a change of type by gradual intermarriage, but we know, at any rate, of one instance where this same Mongol people, from living in more or less isolated positions, and mixing with neighbouring races only to a very slight extent, have preserved all the physical characteristics of their original type, as well as the language, down to our own day — or some six and a half centuries from the date of their transplantation, during the era of the Mongol conquests. I refer to the Hazaras of Afghanistan, most of whom are still as unmistakably Mongol in feature and build as the inhabitants of Mongolia itself. According to the most trustworthy accounts of them, they descend from the remnants of the army of Nikudar Oghlan, a son of Hulaku, who invaded the region in which they dwell now, about the latter half of the thirteenth century; - [Previous: 8.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.2.5) - [Next: 8.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.2.7) - [Up: 8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.2.6) · Pramāṇa