Hazaras had been seasonal menial workers in British India, who came here in winter months to work in coal mines, road construction etc. during the British colonial expansion in Sindh, Balochistan and Northwest Frontier.
The subjugation of Hazarajat by Abdur Rahman, between 1891 and 1893, triggered a mass exodus of Hazaras to Turkestan, Khorasan and Balochistan.