Jaat

Jat
Regions with significant populations
	India and some parts of Pakistan
Languages
	Haryanvi • Hindi • Punjabi • Rajasthani • Sindhi •BrajBhasha •Urdu
Religion
	Hinduism • Islam • Sikhism

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Jaat or Jat or Jutt or Jats (Hindi: जाट or जट्ट, Punjabi: ਜੱਟ) The Jats are a ancient Kshatriya community of northern India and Pakistan. Jat are a large group of people, found mostly in India and some parts of Pakistan.

History[edit]

Jats occupies the most fertile land of India and dominate Northwest India. "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] Mostly Jaat are knowns as zamindar.

Distribution[edit]

Jaats inhabited throughout the Punjab region, Sindh and some other northwestern parts of Subcontinent Jats are commonly called as Zamindar with Jats being synonymous with landlord.^{[citation needed]}

Famous people[edit]

Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Maharaja Suraj Mal
Maharaja Bhim Singh Rana
Baba Shahmal Tomar
Phogat Sister
Sushil kumar 2 times Olympic medal winner
Sakshi Malik Olympic medal winner wrestler
Saina Nehwal
Baba Deep Singh
Bhagat Singh
Chaudhary Charan Singh
Dara Singh
Mallika Sherawat
Bhupinder Singh of Patiala
Raja Nahar Singh
Gokula
Randeep Hooda

References[edit]

↑ 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. Retrieved 15 October 2011.

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