Jats - Wikipedia
WEBThey were not a caste in the usual Hindu sense, for example, in which Bhumihars of the eastern Gangetic plain were; rather they were an umbrella group of peasant-warriors. [48] According to Christopher Bayly:
Jat Sikh - Wikipedia
WEBJat Sikh or Jatt Sikh (Gurmukhi: ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ) is an ethnoreligious group, a subgroup of the Jat people whose traditional religion is Sikhism, originating from the Indian subcontinent. They are one of the dominant communities in the …
Jat | Ethnic Group | Britannica
WEBAug 31, 2024 · Jat, traditionally rural ethnic group of northern India and Pakistan. In the early 21st century the Jats constituted about one-fourth of the populations of Punjab and Haryana; nearly 10 percent of the population of Balochistan, Rajasthan, and Delhi; and from 2 to 5 percent of the populations of Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Uttar Pradesh.
Jat Muslim - Wikipedia
WEBJat Muslim or Musalman Jat (Punjabi: جٹ مسلمان; Sindhi: مسلمان جاٽ), also spelled Jatt or Jutt (Punjabi pronunciation: [d͡ʒəʈːᵊ]), are an elastic and diverse [1] ethno-social subgroup of the Jat people, who are composed of followers of Islam and are native to the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. [2]
Jats - Encyclopedia.com
WEBThe Jats (Jâts) are a peasant caste widely distributed throughout northern India and Pakistan. They form geographically separate endogamous groups that have become integrated into the local community as distinct castes.
Jats - Jatland Wiki
WEBSep 8, 2024 · An uninformed view is that Jat is a farmer-caste (caste = social group) but Jat is really a race (race = ethnic group). Only a subset of the over 900 million farmers in south Asia are Jats. There are specific Jat DNA markers in the genetic profile, as highlighted in the Jat Genetics section.
Life, culture and traditions of Jat people - Jatland Wiki
WEBOct 30, 2023 · Main article: Life and culture. Bullock cart ride. The Life and culture of Jats is full of diversity and approaches most closely to that ascribed to the ancient Aryans of India. The Jat lifestyle was designed to foster a martial spirit.
A History of the Caste System in Ancient, Medieval, and
WEBSep 9, 2020 · Irfan Habib, an Indian historian, states that Abu al-Fadl’s Ain-i Akbari provides a historical record and census of the Jat peasant caste of Hindus in northern India, where the tax-collecting noble classes (Zamindars), the armed cavalry and infantry (warrior class) doubling up as the farming peasants (working class), were all of the same Jat ...
Jat - Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 21, 2018 · A Jat can be Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh, and in 1931 over 50 percent of the entire Sikh population was constituted by Jat. Many ceremonies, especially those accompanying the rites of passage, are common to all Jat, irrespective of …
Jats - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WEBJats. Jat (Jadgal), Jutt or Jaat is a community of traditionally non-elite peasants and agriculturalists [a][b] found in northern India and Pakistan. The Jat community is found majorly in three religions: Hindu, Muslim and Sikh. [3][4]
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