Daikundi also spelled as Dai Kundi, ( prs, دایکندی) is one of the major

tribes The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...

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mostly in

Hazaristan Hazaristan ( fa, هزارستان, Hazāristān), or Hazarajat ( fa, هزاره‌جات, Hazārajāt) is a mostly mountainous region in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains in the western extremities of the H ...

(Hazarajat) region. They live in Daikundi Province and the

Lal Wa Sarjangal Lal (La'l), United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( prs, لعل) sometimes called Lal wa Sarjangal () is a town and the administrative center of Lal wa Sarjangal District, Ghor Province, Afghanistan. Demographics Lal is one ...

, Chaghcharan, Dawlatabad,

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and Pasaband districts of Ghor Province. Daikundis remained secluded and unhinged from the devastation and the resulting uprooting of different Hazara tribes, after the Battle of Uruzgan. The Daikundi have traditionally been very closely allied with the Daizangi. Subsets of the Daikundi include the Ainak, Alak, Babuli, Baibagh, Barat, Bubak, Chahkuk, Chahush, Chora, Dawlat Beg, Doda, Fihristan, Haider Beg, Jami, Jasha, Kalanzai, Kaum-i-Ali, Khudi, Khushak, Mamaka, Mir Hazar, Neka, Roshan Beg, and Saru.Dai Kundi Province:Program for Culture and Conflict Studies, (US) Naval Postgraduate School.
/ref> Daikundi Province was created from the upper half of the

Uruzgan province Uruzgan (Dari), also spelled as Urozgan or Oruzgan, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Uruzgan is located in the center of the country. The population is 436,079, and the province is mostly a tribal society. Tarinkot serves as t ...

of Afghanistan in 2004. It partially fulfilled the Hazara demand that their land is restored to them. The Hazaras were uprooted from Uruzgan after the 1893 Battle of Uruzgan, and the Pashtun tribes were settled on their land.

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{{authority control Hazara people Hazara tribes Ethnic groups in Daykundi Province Ethnic groups in Ghor Province

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