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The different caste populations, unlike tribes, have extensive geographical overlap and members of several castes generally constitute the complex village society. In such a village society, each caste, traditionally self regulated by a caste council, used to lead a relatively autonomous existence.
The caste system consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, which may be regarded as different levels of analysis of this system. The caste system as it exists today is thought to be the result of developments during the collapse of the Mughal era and the rise of the British colonial government in India.
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.
K. Kaarkaathaar; Kadaiyar; Kadia (Muslim) Kadia Kumbhar; Kaikadi people; Kaikalas; Kalabaz; Kalari Panicker; Kalingi; Kalita (caste) Kalwar (caste) Kamar (caste) Mukguhar
Jāti, a term for the thousands of clans, tribes, communities and sub-communities in India; Jāti (Buddhism), the arising of a new living entity Jati (game), a board game from the 3M bookshelf game series
A large section of the Nomadic pastoralist tribes are known as vimukta jatis or 'free / liberated jatis' because they were classed as such under the Criminal Tribes Act 1871, enacted under British rule in India. After Indian independence, this act was repealed by the Government of India in 1952.
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.
Baba Buddha, first granthi (custodian and reader) of the Guru Granth Sahib [1]; Bhai Bala, follower and companion of Guru Nanak (first Guru of Sikhism) and one of the most revered in Sikhism [2]