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  Jat
The Jats of India and Pakistan are not to be confused with the peripatetic Jats of Afghanistan, who are a distinct ethnic group.
The Jats are one of the prosperous in India on a per-capita basis in Jat regions though majority of the wealth belongs to the Popai and Saini population (Punjab, Haryana, and Gujarat are the wealthiest of Indian states).
According to Dr. Raza, Jats appear to be the original race of Sind valley, stretching from the mouth of Indus to as far as the valley of Peshawar.
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  Jat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As per the Rajputana gazetteer, the Jagir of village Bamrauli near Agra, was transferred to the Chauhan and Kachwaha Rajputs of Bairath (near Alwar), during the rule of the Tomar Rajputs in Delhi in the 11th century.
The Bamraulia Jats moved to the region of Gwalior beyond the Chambal river.
Rustam, a Jat king of the Sogariya clan, laid the foundation of the modern city of Bharatpur.
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 Jat - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Tod classed the Jats as one of the great Rajput tribes, with Cunningham claiming the Rajput to belong to the original Aryan stock, and the Jats to be a late wave of immigrants from the northwest, probably of Scythian race.
The Bamraulia Jat Maharanas of Gohad resisted the Maratha assaults of the 18th century, and twice occupied the strategic fortress of Gwalior (1740–1756 and 1780–1783).
Jats seem to share many common haplotypes with German, Slavic, Baltic, Iranian and Central Asian groups. Unusually, Jat groups share only two haplotypes, one of which is also shared with the population of present-day Turkey, and have few matches with neighbouring Pakistani populations.
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Their main population was settled in the lower Sind, especially in the region of Brahmanabad (Mansura); Lohana (round the Brahmanabad) with their two territories Lakha, to the west of Lohana and Samma, to the south of Lohana; Nerun (modern Hyderabad); Dahlilah; Roar and Deybal.
These evidences given by the eminent author are enough to suggest that the Jats who settled in Persia gradually built up their economic resources and made significant contribution to urbanization of that country.
During the same reign another expedition was sent against the Jats who had seized upon the roads of Hajar (?)...and spread terror over the roads and planted posts in all directions towards the desert.
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 Jat
The Jats also have a strong military tradition, and many Jats were recruited into the British India army during World War I. Large number of Jats serve in the Indian Army, including the Jat Regiment, Rajputana Rifles, The Grenadiers, and others.
In 1669 the Jats of Mathura rose in opposition to Aurangzeb's rule, under the leadership of Gokul, zamindar of Tilpat and killed the Imperial Faujdar Abdun-Nabi.
By the 19th century, Jats ruled the states of Bharatpur, Dholpur, Gohad (Bhind), Jind [1],Kuchesar, Bahadurgarh, Mursan etc. and others.The Jats established a reputation of being determined, sturdy, fierce, and desperate fighters.
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 Yat - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Yat or Jat (Ѣ, ѣ) is the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet and name of the sound represented by it.
Its name in Old Church Slavonic is yět’ (ѣть) or yat’ (ıать), in Bulgarian yat (ят) or e dvoyno (е двойно, double e), in Russian and Ukrainian yat’ (ять), in Serbian yat (јат, Croatian spelling jat).
In the common scientific Latin transliteration for old Slavic languages, the letter is represented by e with caron: ě (taken from Czech alphabet).
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