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The Jat people, also spelt Jaat, Zuṭṭ and Jatt, [1] are an iranian tribe traditionally agricultural community in Iraq, Iran, Northern India and Pakistan. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ a ] [ b ] [ c ] Originally pastoralists in historical Zuṭṭistān (or Bilād al Zuṭṭ (Land of Jats)), was an eastern province of Persian empire, Situated in ...
Most of the Jatavs belongs to the Hindu Religion. Some Jatavs also became Buddhists in 1956, after B. R. Ambedkar converted him to Buddhism. On September 5, 1990, around a thousand members of the Jatav community from village Jaunpur near Agra converted to Sikhism in a protest against the upper caste people who halted the marriage procession taken out by Jatav Chamar Community.
The Jat reservation agitation was a series of violent protests in February 2016 by the Jats of North India, especially those in the state of Haryana, which "paralysed" the state for 10 days. [1] The protestors sought inclusion of their caste in the Other Backward Class (OBC) category, which would make them eligible for affirmative action benefits.
Jat 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]
Chamar (or Jatav) [2] is a community classified as a Scheduled Caste under modern India's system of affirmative action that originated from the group of trade persons who were involved in leather tanning and shoemaking. [3]
Brijendra Singh, the last ruler of Bharatpur State and a former Member of Parliament [17] Charat Singh, founder of Sukerchakia Misl [18] [19] Chhajja Singh Dhillon, founder and chieftain of Bhangi Misl [20] Churaman, [21] Jat chieftain of Sinsini, Rajasthan. Ganda Singh Dhillon, chieftain of Bhangi Misl [22] Gokula, chieftain of Tilpat [23]
Statue of Maharaja Suraj Mal founder of the Bharatpur State Portrait of Maharaja Ranjit Singh founder of the Sikh Empire List Following is the list of those ruling Jat dynasties which are primarily located on the Indian Subcontinent:
Char-Jaat, Char meaning "four" and Jaat meaning "caste" in Nepali, comprises four prominent high castes amongst the Tamu people (also known as "Gurung" in nepali language): Kle, Lam, Kon, and Lem which are called Ghale, Lama, Ghotaney and Lamichane in nepali language.