Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Jat people, also spelt Jaat and Jatt, [1] are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. [2] [3] [4] [a] [b] [c] Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and ...
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]
According to Joyce Pettigrew, the Jat Sikh clans traditionally claim patrilineal descent from a Rajput ancestor and purport to have settled in the Punjab in the 16th century. [38] While Jat Sikhs as a whole marry endogamously within the Jat community, they marry exogamously based upon got (clan), meaning they marry other Jats belonging to a ...
Sandhu or Sindhu (Punjabi: ਸੰਧੂ (Gurmukhi); سندھو (Shahmukhi)) is the second largest clan of Jats in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. [2] [3] The Sandhus played an important role in the Sikh history. [4]
from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala from Urdu, to refer to flavoured spices of Indian origin.
Bhagwant Mann, [63] Chief Minister of Punjab; Chaudhary Bharat Singh [64] [65] former Member of Parliament and Congress leader from Delhi; Bhupinder Singh Hooda, [66] former Chief Minister of Haryana; Charan Singh, the sixth Prime Minister of India [67] Chhotu Ram, [68] co-founder of Unionist party and a Jat leader of the colonial era
Dhillon (Punjabi: ਢਿੱਲੋਂ (Gurmukhi); ڈھلوں (Shahmukhi) pronunciation: [ʈìlːõː]) is one of the largest Jat clans found in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ page needed ] [ 3 ] Dhillon sardars (chiefs) ruled the Bhangi Misl (sovereign state) in the Sikh confederacy .
The Bhattis are Punjabi [4] [5] [6] and Sindhi. [7] [8] [9] The Bhats, are descended from a common ancestor, Rao Bhati, a 3rd-century Hindu monarch. [10] The Muslim Bhattis had control over Bhatner and settlements around it. The Bhattis later lost Bhatner to the Rathores of Bikaner, who renamed Bhatner as Hanumangarh. [11]