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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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