Dhillon (a Dhillon Jat and served as speaker and (Captain, 4th Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force), Handbook on Sikhs: for the use of Regimental Officers, Printed at the Pioneer Press, Allahabad, India, 1896, pp. (Lt. Col. Tod, J. 64–65. Its just about rebuttals to how Jatt is not a "Caste". [2][3][4] They form at least half[5][6] of the Sikh population in Punjab, with some sources estimating them to be about 60%[6][7] to 66%[8] of the Sikh population. 90–91, 11, 92. It doesn't matter. During the early part of the Christian era, most of the Jats were uprooted by the Mongol people from their homeland in Central Asia, after ruling there for over one thousand years. Please add surname Hara to Sikh Jatt list. Three most daring brothers named Jassa Singh, Mali Singh, and Tara Singh of Tarkhan (carpenter) background and belonging to Mouza Sarsang in the Lahore district (now in Pakistan) became devout followers of Nodh Singh. The Jats have trashed a government offer to include those with annual income of less than Rs 6 lakh under an Economically Backward Persons (EBP) category with a 20% quota, to be shared with four other castes: Tyagis, Rors, Bishnois and Jat Sikhs. 623 (Vol. According to Cunningham [6] in 1844 the estimated revenue of the Sikh Kingdom was 32.475 million in 1844 rupees and the breakdown for the army's forces was: Ranjit Singh was the only ruler in South Asia who could have opposed British rule in India but he had befriended the British with which he entered into peace treaties. These Generals were Allard, Court, and Ventura [6]. 25). So, please treat this article as a source of general information about this issue and kindly do not amend this article to highlight this important underlying Sikh principle. But the Supreme Court has refused to stay the Centre’s decision to include Jat in the OBC list. It was a poll-eve decision by the UPA-II government in March 2014 to include Jats in the central list of OBC category — the Jats have strong social and political clout in western Uttar Pradesh and its bordering areas of Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan besides … 32yrs / 5' 10" (177 cm). [1] They form an estimated 21%-25% of the population of the Indian state of Punjab. (Professor Pettigrew, J. Jat people were historically farmers, landowners and warriors. I am a simple girl with a good personality. We are Looking for a Jatt Sikh Punjabi Girl Who Will Settle in with Our Fam ... Read more. "The Jats in Punjab comprise only 21 per cent population of the total 60 per cent Sikhs, yet they have been ruling and dominating politics in Punjab for decades", "Parties in Punjab decry exclusion of Jat Sikhs from reservation", http://www.globalsikhstudies.net/pdf/per-sikh-studies.pdf, "Sikhism uplifted the social status of Jat community of Punjab says Irfan Habib", "WSN-Op-Ed-The Malaise of Jat Consciousness", "Guru Angad Dev – Profile of Angad Dev – Second Sikh Guru", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jat_Sikh&oldid=1004375592, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages, Articles with incomplete citations from September 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 February 2021, at 08:53. And among 5 Beloveds, the Panj pyare who became Khalsa there was only one Jatt. Dhillon (former Assistant Secretary of Transportation of the United States and now a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives). 93). The history of each of the Misals founded in the eighteenth century by the Jats is briefly described below [6, 7, 15-17]. "…if military service is made the exclusive right of Jat Sikhs and a few outcasts, still the Jat must ever be the main source for recruits, as he far and away outnumbers the other people, and possesses as a class qualities which no other people can claim. 240-241, 236. (Sikh temples) in one multi-ethnic city, Leicester. Not Specified, Australia. Jat people are mistakenly thought of coming under the shudra class in the Hindu Verna system mainly because of their mass migration occurring well after the caste system in India was established. [19], pp. Matrimony ID : MI-621219. bsipray. [12][13] They formed the vanguard of Sikh resistance against the Mughal Empire from the 18th century onwards. Publishing Corporation, Delhi, India, 1985, pp. As per Latif [7], the chief of this Misal was a Jat named Phul of the Sandhu (Sidhu?) 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Now talking about Ethnicity, you will notice that Caste is not Ethnic in nature at all. bsipray. The Jat people (Hindi pronunciation: [dʒaːʈ]) (also spelled Jatt) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. [24], The Jat Sikh community has constituted an important source of recruits for the Indian Army. As they took up farming, they and the original Jatt communities often merged, so it is often neccessary to go back to these times to truly find the origin of the family. (Griffiths, J. For example, two of the well known followers of Guru Nanak (born in 1469), the founder of Sikhism, were Jats: Bala (a Sandhu Jat [6]) and Bhai Buddha (a Randhawa Jat). (Sir), The Punjab Chiefs, Vol. Jats are very brave, they are son of god they are best,ahir,jaat,gujjar,sikh,dogra,chandravanshi rajputs,gorkhas,marathas etc are truly of yaduvanshi origin,all are … Kamboh Sikh Subcastes. This gives an Ethnic Nature to Jatt Identity strongly proving the case that assumption "Jatt means Farmer" is false and thereby further concluding assumption that Jatt is a Caste is False too. I, Civil and Military Gazette Press, Lahore, 1890, pp. Eg Caste consists of professions divided into four Categories called Varnas. 331-346, 157, 69, 237. FIRST REBUTTAL OVER. Together, the above five points of rebuttals thereby confirm the fact that - without doubt that Jatt is not a Caste. … The largest Bunga with two watchtowers, at the Complex of the Harmandar Sahib was built by the Ramgarhia Misl. [9] - Polier, A.L.H., (Colonel and died in A.D. 1795), An Account of the Sikhs, in Early European Accounts of the Sikhs edited by Dr. Ganda Singh, Published by Today & Tommorrow's Printers & Publishers, New Delhi, India, 1974, pp. I, reprinted by the Languages Department Punjab, Patiala, Punjab, India, 1970, pp. 'Matharu or Matharoo (ਮਠਾੜੂ in Gurmukhī script) is a prominent Sikh clan belonging to the Jatt tribe. Some of the Politicians belonging to the Jat Sikh background in Canada and the United States are Moe Sihota (a Cabinet Minister of British Columbia), H. Dhaliwal (Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Member of Parliament of Canada), G.S. Some of the well-known Jat Sikhs of the Sikh history are Baba Deep Singh (a Sandhu According to censuses of the British Raj period, most Sikh Jats were converted from Hindu Jats. In 2012, the commission recommended the inclusion of Jats and four other castes, Jat Sikhs, Ror, Tyagi and Bishnoi, in the category Special Backward Classes (SBC). Demographics. [5] - McLeod, W.H., The Evolution of the Sikh Community, Oxford University Press, London, 1976, pp. Ramgarhia Sikh Subcastes. This article is just for information purpose and to share how people from different castes came into the Sikh fold. [11], Some Jats started to follow the teachings of Guru Nanak in small numbers and these swelled after the formation of the Khalsa. Jat Sikh folklorist, Hoshiar Singh Dulhe, himself admits that Virk Jats , who are a major Jat clan, were once thought to be "thieves, freebooters and trouble makers". They have never adopted the Brahmanical system of Hinduism. Furthermore, Latif [7] said, "This vast delta (area surrounding the birthplace of Guru Nanak in Punjab called "Richna Doab"), during the period immediately preceding the establishment of the Sikh religion, was inhabited by the Jats and Bhattis (to the best of my knowledge Bhatti is also the clan name of some Jats). Saini Sikh Subcastes. Such distinctions have surfaced only due to ill interests of certain section of people, who, on the pretext of making a society more manageable through these classifications, eventually paved the way to an unequal grouping within the human race. (Cunningham, J.D. He was named Deepa (light). Hara is the surname from village Nanadpur near Shanewal. Media in category "Jatt" The following 24 files are in this category, out of 24 total. Because there is nothing wrong with being a Jatt or being a Bapay or being ANYTHING for that matter! [7], Sikh sub group from the Indian subcontinent. At least nine of these Misals were founded by the Jats. (Captain Bingley, A.H. [3], pp. Contact Now. They thus colonized the Punjab, Northern Rajputana (modern Indian state of Rajasthan), and the western half of the Gangetic Doab (western part of the modern Indian state of Uttar Pardesh in northern India), and a considerable proportion of the inhabitants of these countries are undoubtly of Scythian origin". The purpose of this blog is to honor the spiritual, military, and service contributions of the valiant Jatt community and try to understand their family history purely from a historical perspective. Jats did not dominate Sikhism earlier. Irfan Habib has argued that Sikhism did much to uplift the social status of Jat people, who were previously regarded in the Punjab as being of Shudra or Vaishya status in the Hindu ritual ranking system of varna. Even though Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a Jat and a Sikh, during his rule he treated every individual and community very fairly which won him the admiration of people inside and outside his empire. On the other hand, the Jat Sikhs who live 3000 km up north are a lot fairer. Sikh Player - Lal Chand Yamla Jatt - 1 Albums & 16 Tracks Toggle navigation SikhPlayer.com In fact, Sikhism completely rejects class or race based distinctions between humans, that leads us to make an inequitable society. Economic & Political Weekly (28 June 2003); Dalits in Regional Context (2004). The Misal was founded by a Jat landlord named Kapur Singh Virk who later on was popularly known as Nawab Kapur Singh Virk [7]. 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