Chapter HUCK to HYSON of H by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

known amongst themselves by the names of their principal tribes and the clans subordinate to them respectively.” (Races of Afghanistan, 114.)]

c. 1480.—“The Hazara, Takdari, and all the other tribes having seen this, quietly submitted to his authority.”—Tarkhan- Náma, in Elliot, i. 303. For Takdari we should probably read Nakudari; and see Marco Polo, Bk. I. ch. 18, note on Nigudaris.

c. 1505.—Kabul “on the west has the mountain districts, in which are situated Karnûd and Ghûr. This mountainous tract is at present occupied and inhabited by the Hazâra and Nukderi tribes.”—Baber, p. 136.

1508.—“Mirza Ababeker, the ruler and tyrant of Káshghar, had seized all the Upper Hazáras of Badakhshán.”—Erskine’s Baber and Humáyun, i. 287. “Hazáraját báládest. The upper districts in Badakhshán were called Hazáras.” Erskine’s note. He is using the Tarikh Rashidi. But is not the word Hazáras here, ‘the clans,’ used elliptically for the highland districts occupied by them?

[c. 1590.—“The Hazárahs are the descendants of the Chaghatai army, sent by Manku Káán to the assistance of Huláku Khán.…They possess horses, sheep and goats. They are divided into factions, each covetous of what they can obtain, deceptive in their common intercourse and their conventions of amity savour of the wolf.”—Ain, ed. Jarrett, ii. 402.]

(b.) A mountain district in the extreme N.W. of the Punjab, of which Abbottabad, called after its founder, General James Abbott, is the British head-quarter. The name of this region apparently has nothing to do with Hazaras in the tribal sense, but is probably a survival of the ancient name of a territory in this quarter, called in Sanskrit Abhisara, and figuring in Ptolemy, Arrian and Curtius as the kingdom of King Abisares. [See M’Crindle, Invasion of India, 69.]

HUZOOR, s. Ar. huzur, ‘the presence’; used by natives as a respectful way of talking of or to exalted personages, to or of their master, or occasionally of any European gentleman in presence of another European. [The allied words hazrat and huzuri are used in kindred senses as in the examples.]

[1787.—“You will send to the Huzzoor an account particular of the assessment payable by each ryot.”—Parwana of Tippoo, in Logan, Malabar, iii. 125.

[1813.—“The Mahratta cavalry are divided into several classes: the Husserat, or household troops called the kassey-pagah, are reckoned very superior to the ordinary horse. …”—Forbes, Or. Mem. 2nd ed. i. 344.

[1824.—“The employment of that singular description of officers called Huzooriah, or servants of the presence, by the Mahratta princes of Central India, has been borrowed from the usages of the Poona court. Huzooriahs are personal attendants of the chief, generally of his own tribe, and are usually of respectable parentage; a great proportion are hereditary followers of the family of the prince they serve.…They are the usual envoys to subjects on occasions of importance. … Their appearance supersedes all other authority, and disobedience to the orders they convey is termed an act of rebellion.”— Malcolm, Central India, 2nd ed. i. 536 seq.

[1826.—“These men of authority being aware that I was a Hoogorie, or one attached to the suite of a great man, received me with due respect.”—Pandurang Hari, ed. 1873, i. 40.]

HYSON. (See under TEA.)