Daikundi is one of the major tribes of the Hazaras of Hazarajat

Hazarajat

The Hazarajat is the original homeland of the Hazara people, and lies in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains and the western extremities of the Hindu Kush. Its physical boundaries, however, are roughly marked by the Bamiyan Basin to the north, the headwaters of...

, located in central Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

. They live in Daikundi Province and the Lal Wa Sarjangal District

Lal Wa Sarjangal District

Lal Wa Sarjangal is a district in the north of Ghor Province, Afghanistan. The district center is the town of Lal Wa Sarjangal. The population of 95,300 is exclusively Hazara....

 of Ghor province. Daikundis remained secluded and unhinged from the devastation and the resulting uprooting of different Hazara tribes, after the Battle of Uruzgan

Battle of Uruzgan

The Battle of Uruzgan was fought in 1893 CE between the Hazara ethnic group and the Afghans. Thereafter, on Hazara defeat, the Hazaras of the Uruzgani tribe were uprouted from Uruzgan by Abdur Rahman Khan and Afghan tribes were resettled in Uruzgan. They Uruzgani refugees migrated to Iran and...

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Daikundi Province was created from the upper half of the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan in 2004. Gizab district

Gizab District

'Gizab is a district in Orūzgān Province, Afghanistan. The district lies along the inexact line dividing Afghanistan's Pashtun tribes in the south from the Hazaras in the country's center—Gizab has a mix of Pashtun and Hazara villages. Gizab was transferred in 2004 from Oruzgan province to...

was shifted back from Daikundi to Uruzgan in 2006.