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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.
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 ...
Jat 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 Punjab, India , owing to their large land holdings. [ 2 ]
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.
A Khap Panchayat has no official government recognition or authority but can exert significant social influence within the community it represents. [6] The Baliyan Khap of Jats as led by Mahendra Singh Tikait until 2011 is one that has gained particular media attention. [7] Dahiya Khap is major khap of Jat community in Haryana. [8] [9]
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]
Each broad caste level is a hierarchical order that is based on notions of purity, non-purity and impurity. It uses the concepts of defilement to limit contacts between caste categories and to preserve the purity of the upper castes. These caste categories have been exclusionary, endogamous and the social identity inherited. [84]