Food for thought
1-There are plenty of jats still in Sindh. Many now call themselves Rajputs!
2 - Them being driven out , captured, and becomeing the Roma gypsies is a silly story.
For a relevant discussion thread see:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JatHistory/message/219
3 -There was no 17th expedition of Ghazni. that is a fabrication of Feristha , 500 years after Ghazni lived. see:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JatHistory/message/85
Mahmud of Ghazni's last expedition
4- The Mahabharat story is actually that 25,000 Brahmins were sent there by Duryodhana, and his sister was sent there to rule, because the unruly uncivili0zed Jats came and begged for Brahmins to be sent there.
This is a late fabrication, served up to establish the superiority of the ' Brahmin' jati against the Jats.
Any guess , who the author of this canard is?
We must remember that the Mahabharat was still being revised and re-revised upto one hunded years ago.
Besides I am not even sure that this story exists in the Mahabharat- Quanago mentions it in his "History of the Jats", but which edition of the Mahabharat is it mentioned in?
ON many issues Quanago should be taken with more than a pinch of Salt- he is ok on the straightforward translatains from Urdu/farsi to English, but very weak on the rest!
The MBH is now on line and it shudl be easy to check.
The pen is indeed mightier than the swiord, when we still belive such bilge!
Best regards
Ravi Chaudhary