Hi All,
Being a Rajasthani Jat myself, I've felt, sometimes witnessed and heard a lot of stories from elders about famous rivalry between two prominent communities of Rajasthan. Even there're couple of very famous movies made on this particular rivalry-
1) Ghulami - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089201/
2) Bantwara - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096896/
This is very much true Rajputs were mostly rulers and land lords at that time in most of Rajasthan except Bharatpur and Dholpur states. They used to oppress and discriminate all the classes mostly Farmers and of course Jats. But Jats always been free soul, fearless and brave race and it was out of question to tolerate such injustice as a result conflict, fights used to arise when Jat refused to give them 'Lagaan' or discard their social discrimination or inhuman behaviour to poor people. As a result many Jat farmers used to become Rebel and started fighting for cause of their rights. There're so many such stories of local rebels who used to loot 'Thakurs' or 'Sahukars' in those times. After independence, winds of change brought freedom and democracy and wiped away aristocracy and oppression, however it was really hard for Rajputs to leave their ages old ruling and as a result they started harassing progressive, hard working Jats by different means like not giving admission to brilliant Jat students in their funded colleges (My Tauji has been victim), failing them in interviews etc but they couldn't hold on to their cheap tricks and Jats defeated them in all means.
Now my question for Historians (Specially Burdak Ji and Ravi Ji) is what was the reason that Rajputs came in power in particular in Rajasthan and why didn't Jat leaders from Haryana, Punjab and UP didn't help poor Jat farmers before? Why didn't Raja Suraj Mal tried to spread his kingdom and help fellow Jats of Shekhawati and other area?
Although that kinda rivalry no more exist but still there're minor differences and minor conflict arises between the communities once in a while but still Jats at large don't like Rajputs. Their false sense of pride, fake aristocracy and show off, hard to take.
I seriously request you all to watch movie Ghulami and Bantwara to feel the real zeal. Both movies are available on youtube.
Ghulami -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McWqJr_2zHE
Bantwara -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jpuphGl0kQ
Cheers
Jit