Ravi Chaudhary (Mar 31, 2004 03:52 p.m.):
The history section, origin of the Jats was amended on March 28,
I do wonder why we Jats need our history to be validated by some Englishman who lived over 200 years ago.
Todd was sent specifically to Rajasthan to make friends of the Rajputs and to make them allies of the British.
His book was written simply with that objective., He cobbled together some legends and glorified the Rajputs.
Every Jat reference was turned into a Rajput reference. He succeeded.
What is surprising is that the owners of this site, keep referring with reverence to what some Englishman , Todd, Cunningham etc say and ignore what our own Jat historians say.
What is also surprising, that there is now enough material on this site ( if one wishes to ignore what is on the Yahoo groups Jathistory site), to show that the Rajputs as a concept did not exist before the 10th century AD, but the Jats can be traced back to Rig Veda times( circa 2000 BCE).
.Why are the site owners, moderators,members content with putting forward erroneous information?
Ravi Chaudhary