Jat people
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| Jatt جٹ |
|---|
| Total population |
|
30 million+[source?] |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Mainly in Punjab, Pakistan and Punjab, India, Also in Sind, Pakistan and Haryana, India |
| Languages |
| Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Sindhi |
| Religions |
| Sikhism, Islam |
The Jat or Jats (Urdu: جٹ) are a large group of people, found mostly in Pakistan and India.
History[change | change source]
"Jat" is a label of a wide-ranging non-elite community, which had its origins in pastoralism in the lower Indus valley of Sindh.[1]
- "... (North India) contained large numbers of non-elite tillers. In the Punjab and the western Gangetic Plains, convention defined the Rajput's non-elite counterpart as a Jat. Like many similar titles used elsewhere, this was not so much a caste name as a broad designation for the man of substance in rural terrain. … To be called Jat has in some regions implied a background of pastoralism, though it has more commonly been a designation of non-servile cultivating people".[2]
Distribution[change | change source]
Jatts inhabited throughout the Punjab region, Sindh and some other northwestern parts of Subcontinent.[source?]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Asher, Catherine & Talbot, Cynthia 2006. India before Europe. Cambridge University Press, p270. ISBN 978-0-521-80904-7
- ↑ Bayly, Susan (2001). Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age. Cambridge University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-521-79842-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=HbAjKR_iHogC&pg=PA37. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
Further reading[change | change source]
- Census Of India 1911 Volume XIV Punjab Part 2 by Pandit Narikishan Kaul
- 'A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province' by H.A. Rose, Page 354, published in 1919.
