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sanjaychhikara
March 12th, 2003, 08:26 PM
Quote from this book;

"The Jats are one of the most important races among the Indian population today, as during the Muslim period, and their traditions go back to dim antiquity. A critical study of the past history of such a race on the basis of all the available material cannot fail to be a subject of deep interest and instruction to all Indians. Such a study is presented in this book History of the Jats by Professor Kalika R. Qanungo all known sources, printed and manuscript, Persian, Marathi, French and English, have been utilised here, and this history of the Jats represents a synthesis never attempted before. In his History of the Jats, Prof. Qanungo has not been content to be a closet student of written records. He has lived and worked among the Jat boys of his former college at Delhi, he has won their love and confidence and has visited their historic places and tribal gatherings and talked with old Jats whose memories are richly stored with the past. The information he has thus gathered by a personal quest spread over a wide field is concentrated in this book and gives it a unique value.

"He has here sifted the evidence impartially and reviewed events and characters from the broad point of view of India as a whole, instead of narrowing his vision to a single tribe. This wider outlook, this philosophical detachment from the particular dynasty or community dealt with, is specially necessary in any history of India in the 18 century that deserves to live as a true history. For, the Jats were only one out of the many threads that made up the tangled web of North Indian history during the decline of the Mughal Empire. The Jats, Ruhelas, Sikhs, Marathas, Rajputs, Oudh Nawabs, English Company, French adventurers, besides the Delhi Emperors and their semi-independent nobles – all entered into the criss-cross of Indian politics during that one century which saw the rise, maturity and downfall of the Jats as the makers of Indian history; and, therefore, Professor Qanungo has done wisely in studying the contemporary history and interplay of all of these powers. Here is a first-rate contribution to the critical study of the fall of the Mughal Empire.

http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no29325.htm

yajuvender
March 13th, 2003, 09:58 AM
Good information, thanks

sanjaychhikara
March 13th, 2003, 06:00 PM
Yajuvender Singh (Mar 12, 2003 11:28 p.m.):
Good information, thanks

Thanks...

ravichaudhary
March 14th, 2003, 03:37 AM
[quote]Sanjay Chhikara (Mar 12, 2003 09:56 a.m.):
Quote from this book;

The Jats, Ruhelas, Sikhs, Marathas, Rajputs, Oudh Nawabs, English Company, French adventurers, besides the Delhi Emperors and their semi-independent nobles


during that one century


which saw the rise, maturity and downfall of the Jats as the makers of Indian history; and, therefore, Professor Qanungo has done wisely in studying the contemporary history and interplay of all of these powers. Here is a first-rate contribution to the critical study of the fall of the Mughal Empire.
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Quanango was a Bengali Historian, a contemporary of Jadunath Sarkar another well-known Bengali Historian. Jadunath Sarkar writes, that Quanango had covered all the ground and there was nothing else to be said about the Jats.

Back to Mahmud of Ghazni and the silly story of routing the Jats in a Naval battle, about which I made a post already.


Undoubtedly he did a stalwart job in the early thirties when he wrote this Book, for it was first effort by an acknowledged historian.

The book quickly descends into a history not of the Jats, but a history of the Bharatpur Kingdom.

Thakur Desraj’s book in Hindi, first published in 1934, and available from DK Publishers, Darya Ganj DKPD.com or the Surajmal Institute in New Delhi for about Rs 100.00, is the defining and standard work.

Quanango has a lot of myth, and a lack of understanding, to him tales of the Mahabharata, and the decent of the Jats from the Yadhavs are very real.

Nevertheless it makes for interesting reading, as it is in English, and worth getting for every library, as long as it is read, knowing its limitations. However if you have choice and have to buy only one, buy Desraj.

Following Desraj, Pawar, Dahiya, Mahil, and now Bal Kishen Dabas are the Historians who are bringing out our History in all its breath and depth and glory.

It is great to see many persons taking a lot of interest, and spreading the word.
We need lots more.


Ravi


P.S BTW, when does Nithin, plan on getting rid of Nonica Datta’s version of our History, which word for word is what is the History of the Jats according to the JATLAND Web page