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Following is the list of those ruling Jat dynasties which are primarily located on the Indian Subcontinent: Kingdom of Bharatpur [2] Phulkian dynasty [3] Sikh Empire [4] Kingdom of Gohad [5] Kingdom of Dholpur; Rohilla dynasty [6] [7] [8] Kingdom of Phillaur [9] [10]
The Jat people, also spelt Jaat and Jatt, [1] are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. [2] [3] [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 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 Punjab, India , owing to their large land holdings. [ 2 ]
Akali Phula Singh, Sikh warrior and a Nihang leader [8] Ala Singh Jat, Maharaja of Patiala [9] Ali Mohammad Khan, ruler of Rohailkhand. [10] Baba Deep Singh, founder of Shaheedan Misl [11] Badan Singh, [12] founder of the princely state of Bharatpur; Baghel Singh, ruler of Singh Krora Misl [13] Bhim Singh Rana, Maharaja of Gohad State, and ...
The members of one particular Sandhanwalia Jat Sikh family occupied important positions in the Sikh Confederacy. The progenitor of this family was Choudhary Chanda Singh, who settled at the Sandhu wala village in present-day Pakistan, and consequently, came to be known as Sandhanwalia. His sons migrated to Rajasansi. [4]
An early ancestor of the family was Madho, a Jat of the Gill clan, which the Sher-Gill clan is a derivative of. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He founded the village of Madho-Jetha, later known as Majitha. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Lepel H. Griffin in his work, Panjab Chiefs (1865), states that the Majithia family is the progeny of a certain Rana Dhar, who was the son of Sher ...
The Gulabdasia sect (or dera) was founded in the 19th century by Gulab Das (born as Gulab Singh [171]), whom was born in 1809 into a Jat Sikh family to a father named Hamira in the village of Rataul in Tarn Taran district. [172] [113] [173] [note 5] He served in the Sikh Khalsa Army as a trooper during the time of Maharaja Sher Singh. [113]
The Sikh adoption of the Rajput surnames Singh and Kanwar/Kaur was an attempt by the Sikhs to Rajputise their identity, this form of Rajputisation was more specifically done for the Jat Sikhs who were considered to be of low origin amongst the Sikhs. [33]