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The Jats also provide an important insight into how religious identities evolved during the precolonial era. Before they settled in the Punjab and other northern regions, the pastoralist Jats had little exposure to any of the mainstream religions.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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]
However, they are also classified as Jats. [ 2 ] Following the introduction of the Punjab Land Alienation Act in 1900, the authorities of the Raj classified the Sials who inhabited the Punjab as an "agricultural tribe", a term that was administratively synonymous with the " martial race " classification that was used for the purposes of ...