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When Arabs entered Sindh and southern Punjab regions of Pakistan in the seventh century, the chief tribal groupings they found were the Jats and the Med people. Most Jats clans of western Punjab have traditions that they accepted Islam at the hands of Sufi saints of Punjab. Critically, the process of conversion was said to have been a much ...
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 current Pakistan.
The Jats are a community native to India and Pakistan. The following is a list of notable people belonging to Jats. ... [78] former Communist leader from Punjab ...
Misl or sikh confederacy literal meaning (“fighting clan or fighting band”) which ruled over Punjab region after decline of Mughal Empire, however most of them were founded by Jats.
Department of Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University. while ‘‘Raja Amba’’ and ‘‘Rai Ram Deo’’ founded Ambala and Batala, respectively, in the 14th and 15th centuries.Batala Town Imperial Gazetteer of India – ‘‘vol.7 pg.133’’
His legacy would include the founding of Punjabi University, helping Punjab's agricultural peasantry with farming loans and techniques, electric power, infrastructure to attempt to draw the Jatts and other agriculturalists away from the Akalis, and the beginnings of Punjab's Green Revolution, [156] which would go on to have strong influence on ...
The Jathera of the Khangura Jatt Clan is a village Samrari in Jalandhar District Punjab and village Malakpur [3] in Ludhiana District. Jathera is the place of the grave mound of the common ancestor and still worshipped even today by Jats. [4] These sites are also called Wadae Wadhere.
They are one of the dominant communities in the Punjab, India, owing to their large land holdings. [2] They form an estimated 20–25% of the population of the Indian state of Punjab. [3] [4] [5] They form at least half of the Sikh population in Punjab, with some sources estimating them to be about 60–66% appx. two-third of the Sikh population.