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    Weekly feature: "From the Pages of History".

    Some quotes on Jats by some famous historians[ taken from the book: The Jats: their origin, antiquity & migrations" - by Hukam Singh Panwar] which i found quite fascinating, and could not resist my temptation to share with you all. i will try my best to keep it updating every week with some interesting historical quotes/data on Jats.
    Regards,
    --Rajesh Sindhu.
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    1. "The Jats' spirit of freedom and equality refused to submit to Brahmanical Hinduism and in its turn drew the censure of the priviledged Brahman of the Gangetic plains... He (the Jat) assumed somewhat condescending attitude towards the Brahman, whom he considers littile better than a soothsayer or a begger, or the Kshatriya, who disdained earning an honest living and was proud of being a mercenary. He fought more battles for the defence of his motherland than the Kshatriya, for unlike Kshtriya the Jat seldom fled from his village when the invaders came" -- S. Khushwant Singh, the famous journalist.

    2. "The Jat race has two great virtues; they can neither bow down for long under the hegemony of another nor they tolerate the slavery of social and religious orthodoxy. They lived for 700 years under Muslim rule, but as rebels and thorns in their side. This is the sign of a warrior race. A vice is also attached with the Jat. They have a fractiousness, which, if it turns wild, results in mutual enmity. They would have, by dint of their virtues, been the sole rulers of India, but for this vice. History bears ample testimony that this weakness of theirs has been exploited, more often than not, by vested interests." -- Pt. Indra Vidyavachaspati.
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    How true!
    Thanks for the effort.Keep it up.There are some real life examples which will be posted on a later date.

    Best Regards

    Shubha Chand Sheorayan

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    In continuation of the feature( from the same book mentioned earlier):

    3. "The three-lettered word, "Jat", is a euphonic embodiment of 'Justice, Action and Truth'. If the jat lives he lives to defy injustice against himself and others; when he dies he dies in defiance of death." -- Grahl Matthew( an Australian veteran of WW II , and later, in 1979, a Technical Adviser in HAU)

    4. "Had the history of India been written without prejudice and predilections, the heroic deeds of these brave people(Jats), who stemmed the tide of Islam for centuries, would have certainly received the recognition they so richly deserve." --- R.C. Majumdar, the historian.

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    continuing to disuss jats history.....from net...

    Once upon a time…..
    A golden age dawned upon the old city of Bharatpur, traditionally the home of jats. Otherwise the tillers of the land, the jats establish their pre-eminence in the region long before the before the emergence of rajputs. Uniting under the able leadership of rulers like Badan singh and Suraj mal, the jats expanded their territory far beyond its original boundaries. Such was the might of the jats that Bharatpur came to be known as the impregnable city. The beautiful palace and gardens at Deeg and the Bharatpur fort, both built by Surajmal , symbolized the coming of age of the jat state. Soon, nobody dared question the jats’ prowess in battle.
    A British general, Lord Lake, thought otherwise and paid dearly with his life for his decision to besiege the lohagarh fort. At Deeg, the maharaja’s men successfully took on the might of a combined mughal and Martha army of 80,000. Growing from strength to strength, the jats even dared to attack the red fort in Delhi, the ultimate icon of power!

    saket dhankar




    Rajesh Sindhu (Aug 04, 2001 05:21 p.m.):
    In continuation of the feature( from the same book mentioned earlier):

    3. "The three-lettered word, "Jat", is a euphonic embodiment of 'Justice, Action and Truth'. If the jat lives he lives to defy injustice against himself and others; when he dies he dies in defiance of death." -- Grahl Matthew( an Australian veteran of WW II , and later, in 1979, a Technical Adviser in HAU)

    4. "Had the history of India been written without prejudice and predilections, the heroic deeds of these brave people(Jats), who stemmed the tide of Islam for centuries, would have certainly received the recognition they so richly deserve." --- R.C. Majumdar, the historian.

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    In continuation:

    5. Dr. Zakir Hussain, the late President of India, once said:
    "The history of the Jat Regiment is the history of the Indian Army, and in the same way, the history of the Jats is the history of India".

    6. "The Jats have long memories, but little sense of history. They have a proud history, but no historian. Their record in patriotic valour is second to none". --- K.Natwar Singh.

    The author continues to write...
    "Their memorials and monuments weathered away unprotected. Their heroes passed away unsung and unwept. Their sages and saints were cannonaded when alive and never canonised even after their death. Their men of merit and their leaders were discriminated. History had generally been used to build a psychosis against them. ... In peace their hand was ever on the plough, in emergencies their finger was ever on the trigger. They were left no time to check what was recorded concerning them. If any such effort was contemplated, their illiteracy and the inaccessibility of records stood in the way. By the time they acquired competence to sift the grain from the chaff, inextricable fabrications had been so skillfully woven round their identity and history that efforts at extricating the truth from a farrago of untruth had become an almost impossible task".

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    feature: "From the Pages of History".

    In contnuation...

    "They(the Jats), without any caste distinction, female seclusion and with democratic tendencies, erect moral stature and unprejudiced mind, are more in sympathy with the modern age than the aristocratic Rajputs who have not yet discarded the medieval traits of their character, still cherishing the notion of class distinction and contempt for productive labour. If sufficiently enlightened, they may carry back the Indian society to its Vedic purity, inspiring new vigour into it, for a more glorious destiny." -- K. R. Qanungo


    "The Jat is the brave soldier the sweat of whose brow and the dust on whose body are nauseous and pungent to the nostrils of others in times of peace, but most fragrant and welcome in war. He is forgotten and neglected in peace, but sedulously wooed,praised and prized during danger. He survives not on the mercy of others, but by his reputation, the 'perfume of his heroic deeds'. He has habitually undergone, more often than not, such traumatic experiences and yet without any lament." --- the author.

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    "From the Pages of History".

    Jats empire in 18th century:
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    At the time of Suraj Mal's death( in 1764), Jats possessed beside the original principality of Bharatpur, the following districts:
    - Agra
    - Mathura
    - Gurgaon
    - Dholpur
    - Rohtak
    - Meerut
    - Aligarh
    - Farrukhnagar
    - Mainpuri
    - Mewat
    - Rewari
    - Hathras
    - Etah
    Suraj Mal's main military strength was composed of the following:
    - over 25000 infantry
    - 15000 cavalry
    - 5000 horses and 60 elephants for the warfare
    - over 300 pieces of cannon

    Suraj Mal was succeeded by one of his sons, Jawahir Singh.
    Qanungo, the historian of that time, wrote: "The unrealised dream of Suraj Mal --- build a powerful Jat confederacy extending from the Chambal(MP) to the Ravi river(Punjab) thus dominating the whole of the north India, became an accomplished fact with the established of close ties between Jawahir Singh and the Sikhs(Sir Sleeman remarked,"The Sikh is a military nation formed out of the Jats..". Its to be noted that over 70% Sikhs are Jats), they jointly defeated Marathas(Hindus from Bombay area) under their chief Holkar and the successful resistance of the Sikh commonwealth against the Abdali(Afghan invader)".

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