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ravichaudhary
September 21st, 2003, 08:04 AM
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http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=31955

Sahib Singh wanted to visit Serbia to meet fellow Jats

PM spiked his bonding-in-Belgrade plans

Amitav Ranjan



New Delhi, September 20: If you thought Haryana would be the right
place to hold a world Jat conference, you were far off the mark.
Union Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma thinks Belgrade is the
suitable venue. The reason: `Most inhabitants of the Serbian capital
are Jats.'

The minister, in fact, would have gone and attended the World Jat
Congress in Belgrade, then scheduled to be held in late July, had not
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee put his foot down. The meet is the
brainchild of the World Jat Aryan Foundation, which believes Serbs
are Jats whose ancestors migrated from India. Verma is a patron of
the Foundation.


The Prime Minister politely told Verma not to attend the conference
since Delhi elections were around the corner. Also, on August 11,
Vajpayee shot off a letter to all his Cabinet colleagues asking them
to consult the Ministry of External Affairs on ``issues concerning
India's projection or representation abroad, and initiatives
involving foreign governments'' before taking the plunge.

The outburst was prompted by External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha
whose ministry was kept in the dark by the Foundation, which directly
approached the Serbia-Montenegro Embassy with a request to host the
delegates.

The Foundation, founded in 2001 with Principal Hoshiar Singh as its
working president, held an international conference of Jats last
November in New Delhi. Verma presided over that conference too.

When contacted by The Sunday Express in Bhopal, Verma said: ``I had
committed to attend the Jat Conference. However, circumstances did
not permit me to go.'' He didn't explain.

The Jat association contacted Serbian Minister Counsellor and Charge
de Affairs Zarko Milosevic saying that it wanted to hold the
conference at Belgrade as it stood at the confluence of Asia and
Europe and was brimming with Jats unaware of their roots.

Milosevic reportedly sent the proposal straight to his government.
Belgrade asked its CdA to report the matter to Indian Foreign
Ministry. So when Verma approached the Prime Minister's Office with
similar arguments to back his trip, it was immediately spiked.
Despite repeated attempts, Milosevic was not available for comment.

Dr K.S. Singh, former DG of the Anthropological Survey of India, said
there was no connection between the Jats and the Serbs.

``Modern anthropology is based on blood samples and gene pool and
there is nothing to establish this connection. It is purely a
conjecture as Jats belong to Indo-Pak stock and can be traced to 4th
century BC,'' said Singh, author of the 43-volume People of India.

ravichaudhary
September 21st, 2003, 08:07 AM
> http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=31955
>
> Sahib Singh wanted to visit Serbia to meet fellow Jats
>
The links between the Jats, the Getae, the Massagetae, and the
people of Europe are not new, and are not restricted to the post 4th
century BCE period .

If the evidence of the common clan names( Gotras) is followed, then
the links and relationships are more than just obvious.

A number of Jat Historians, to name a few, Thakur Desraj( 1926), R
S Joon ( 1938) B S Dahiya ( 1982) H S Pauria ( 1992) D S Ahlawat(
1988), B S Dhillon(1994), have brought out much material in this
regard.

For those interested in Jat history do visit and join:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JatHistory/

Ravi


P S :

K S Singh, was the editor of a multi volume anthropological study on India.

His work is not exactly over brimming with scholarship.

His comments on the Jats are quite derogratory

( needlessly I may add)

kumarjee
December 31st, 2004, 09:11 PM
Politically appointed or influenced individuals do write history or conduct research in this field. This has been a tradition. So Historical research society of India or Dr. K.S.Singh could not be an exception.
Shaib Singh is a determined leader but well disciplined part of the cadre and hence submitted to A.B.Vajpayee.

This lead of Jats in Europe must not be lost. It is the responsibility of new generation, born in free India, who can be the vanguard to bring about a change in attitude of the ruling elite on both sides of the aisle.

Research is directed to discover the truth---no one should slam the doors for further investigation and consider his/ her conclusions as final.