Other scholars such as Ibbetson, Rose and William Crooke believe the Jat to be one of the Rajput tribes. Historians Vincent Smith and James Todd identify them as belonging to the Indo-Scythian hordes that invaded India between 200 BC and 600 AD, and finally settled there.
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Classical Greek historians Pliny and Ptolemy, trace the migration of the Jat from the banks of the Oxus River (Amu Dariya, Central Asia) to India about a century before Christ. There are many theories about the history of the Jat. “Jat” is a loose and flexible label applied to a wide-ranging community from simple landowning peasants to wealthy and influential Zamindars. Bowles (The People of Asia, 1977) argues that the word Jat in the Punjabi language means a “grazer” or “herdsman,” but notes Ibbetson’s suggestion that a shift from the Punjabi soft “t” to a hard “t” (jutt) in some Muslim areas means an agriculturalist. According to Ibbetson (Panjab Castes, 1916), Jats are of Indo-Aryan (or Indo- Scythian) descent. According to Westphal-Hellbusch and Wesphal (The Jat of Pakistan,1964), give the Arabic equivalent of Jat as Zutt, a generic term used for “men from India.” The word Jat also means “bunch of hair” and the Jats themselves claim that they have descended from the hair of lord Shiv.
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The Jats constitute one of the largest and diverse communities living in northwestern India and Pakistan. They form at least half of the Sikh population in Punjab, with some sources estimating them to be about 60% to 66% of the Sikh population. They form an estimated 21% -25% of the population of the Indian state of Punjab. They are one of the dominant community in the Punjab, India owing to their large land-holdings. Jat Sikh (Jatt Sikh), is a sub-group of the Jat people, and the Sikh ethnoreligious group from the Indian subcontinent. The Jats have been at the forefront of the ongoing farmer’s protests against the Center imposed three agri bills.
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