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'''Jaat''' or '''Jat''' or '''Jutt''' or '''Jats''' ([[Hindi]]: जाट or जट्ट, [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]: ਜੱਟ)<br />
The Jats are a ancient Kshatriya community of northern [[India]] and [[Pakistan]].<br />
Jat are a large group of people, found mostly in [[India]] and [[some parts of Pakistan]].<br />
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==History==<br />
Jats occupies the most fertile land of India and dominate Northwest India. <br />
"Jat" is a label of a wide-ranging non-elite community, which had its origins in [[pastoral]]ism in the lower [[Indus]] valley of [[Sindh]].<ref name="AsherTalbot2006-p269">Asher, Catherine & Talbot, Cynthia 2006. ''India before Europe''. Cambridge University Press, p270. {{ISBN|978-0-521-80904-7}}</ref><br />
:"... (North India) contained large numbers of non-elite tillers. In the Punjab and the western Gangetic Plains, convention defined the Rajput's non-elite counterpart as a Jat. Like many similar titles used elsewhere, this was not so much a caste name as a broad designation for the man of substance in rural terrain. … To be called Jat has in some regions implied a background of pastoralism, though it has more commonly been a designation of non-servile cultivating people".<ref name=sbayly-p37>{{cite book|last=Bayly|first=Susan|title=Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbAjKR_iHogC&pg=PA37|accessdate=15 October 2011|year=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-79842-6|page=37}}</ref> Mostly Jaat are knowns as zamindar.<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
Jaats inhabited throughout the [[Punjab region]], [[Sindh]] and some other northwestern parts of [[Subcontinent]] Jats are commonly called as [[Zamindar]] with Jats being synonymous with landlord.{{cn}}<br />
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==Famous people==<br />
*[[Ranjit Singh|Maharaja Ranjit Singh]]<br />
*[[Maharaja Suraj Mal]]<br />
*[[Maharaja Bhim Singh Rana]]<br />
*[[Baba Shahmal Tomar]]<br />
*[[Phogat Sister]]<br />
*[[Sushil kumar]] 2 times Olympic medal winner<br />
*[[Sakshi Malik]] Olympic medal winner wrestler<br />
*[[Saina Nehwal]]<br />
*[[Baba Deep Singh]]<br />
*[[Bhagat Singh]]<br />
*[[Charan Singh|Chaudhary Charan Singh]]<br />
*[[Dara Singh]]<br />
*[[Mallika Sherawat]]<br />
*[[Bhupinder Singh of Patiala]]<br />
*[[Raja Nahar Singh]]<br />
*[[Gokula]]<br />
*[[Randeep Hooda]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Census Of India 1911 Volume XIV Punjab Part 2 by Pandit Narikishan Kaul<br />
* 'A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province' by H.A. Rose, Page 354, published in 1919.<br />
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Written by:-Navjeet Saharan (Sardarshahar)<br />
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