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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 ...
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 ...
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 ]
Sikhism's relationship to the caste system is a complex and controversial topic in the modern-period. [1] [2] Although the discriminatory practices derived from the Indian caste system is repudiated by the religion's tenets, which stresses upon humanity's oneness, castes continue to be recognized and followed by much of the Sikh community, including prejudices and biases resulting from it.
The Sikh Empire was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. [4] It existed from 1799, when Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore, to 1849, when it was defeated and conquered by the British East India Company following the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
Sikh chieftain Ajit Singh Sandhawalia, who had served as Prime Minister first for Ranjit Singh then for Sher Singh's brother Kharak Singh and Karak Singh's son Nau Nihal, assassinated on 15 September 1843 Sher Singh, Maharaja of Sikh Empire, his son and heir apparent Pratap Singh and Sher Singh's wazir (prime minister) Dhian Singh. Sher Singh ...
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 ...