Jat : also known as Ahirs, were a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India. The community saw radical social changes when Hindu Jāts took up arms against the Mughal Empire during the late 17th & 18th centuries. The Jat Sikhs of Punjab played an important role in the development of the martial Khālsā Panth of Sikhism (q.v.). When the Mughal Empire faltered, rural rebellions by Sikh & Hindu Jāts against it in North India were generally led by small local Zamindars, who had close association & family connections with each other & with the peasants under them. The more triumphant among them Zamindars assumed the ranks of princes, such as the Hindu Jat ruler Badan Singh of the princely state of Bharatpur. Hindu Jat states of the 18th & 19th centuries included Kucheswar ruled by the Dalal Jāts & Gohad ruled by Rāṇā Jāts. Their kingdom of Bharatpur reached its zenith under Maharaja Suraj Mal (1707–1763). He captured Agra Fort in 1761 & it remained in the possession of Bharatpur rulers till 1774 & from 1778 to 1783. Patiālā & Nabha, two important Jat Sikh states in Punjab, were formed with assistance of the sixth Sikh guru, known as Guru Har Gobind. [S. Bhattacharya]
... call him Sadhu-ji He worked in the Dining Room. When Dilip-da sang he accompanied him on the manjira (symbols). He had beer in the Army during the First World War. He would often say: "Bangalira lucky jat." (The Bengalis are a lucky people.) "Why do you say that, Sadhji?" he was often asked "Well, then let me tell you," he would reply, "you know I was enlisted in the Bengal Regiment in the War... temple and one side of a wall collapsed onto the Kapaliks and they were all crushed to death. "Fate had pushed the Bengali sadhu out of the temple and saved him. That's why I say: 'Bangalira lucky jat.' " Page 89 (72) D o you remember Haradhan-da in the Ashram? Before coming here he lived in Chandernagore. He too had participated in the First World War. On his return from ...
... volume, L.S.S. O'Malley, pointed out that Hindu rulers had charged one-sixth of the produce as tax. Akbar raised it to one-third, and Shah Jehan to one-half. Predatory chieftains — Muslim, Maratha, Jat — had laid the country waste; the great ones ate up the little ones, and the king robbed one and all. It was a dismal tale of poverty, oppression and misery. Having found India in such a condition ...
... 223 see al so Muslim Islamic culture ,168 ,179 it his a, 98(fn) J Jainism, 151 , 176 , 177 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 156 (fn) Japan, 88, 137,202,216, 237 (fn) Japanese, 216, 218 jat, 90 Jews, 190, 242 Jinnah, 223, 224, 230, 241, 245 Judaism, 129 Judea, 137 K Kabir, 146 Kala Purusha , 91 Kali Yuga, 91 KaJi,44, 106, 124 Kalki,148 Karmayogin (English weekly) , 47 ...
... between sub castes and triumphing over an isolated instance. Whether the spirit as well as the body of caste should remain, is the modern question. Let Hindus remember that caste as it stands is merely jat, the trade guild sanctified but no longer working, it is not the eternal religion, it is not catur-varnya. I do not care whether widows marry or remain single; but it is of infinite importance to ...
... panic is taking the form of incipient terrorism. Sirdar Ajit Singh of the Lahore Patriots' Association has been doing admirable work among the masses. His most recent success has been to induce the Jat peasantry to boycott the Government canals as a protest against an iniquitous water-tax. Page 337 As a result the Deputy Commissioner in imitation of the Fuller Administration, published ...
... between sub-castes and triumphing over an isolated instance. Whether the spirit as well as the body of caste should remain, is the modern question. Let Hindus remember that caste as it stands is merely jat , the trade guild sanctified but no longer working, it is not the eternal religion, it is not chaturvarnya . I do not care whether widows marry or remain single; but it is of infinite importance to ...
... composed a song on the day of the wedding it And set it at once to music. He sang the song himself on occasion which later became very well-known. Jaateyr namey bajjaati shob Jat-J ally at khelchhey joua Chhunleyee tor jaat jaabey ]aat chheleyr haateyr noy to moya Hoonkor jol aar bhateyr haandi, Bhabli eyteyee jaatir jaan, Tai ...
... Napoleon or Shivaji, full of dark and tremendous schemes; a disarmed and helpless mob of workmen and peasants who are really a dangerous, well-equipped and well-organised army of a hundred thousand Jats capable of overthrowing the British Empire; a widespread and diabolically complex plot on the bursting point, Lahore Fort to be seized and, we presume, Lajpat to be crowned the first Punjabi Emperor ...
... were marked by a valiant and ceaseless struggle for independence by the Hindus to deliver India from Muslim rule. It was the Rajputs who first led this struggle in North India followed by the Jats, Marathas and Sikhs. In the South, this struggle was embodied in the Vijayanagar Empire. This struggle for independence came to its peak when the Marathas under Shivaji almost brought to an end the ...
... between a Briton and Ajit Singh on the eve of the latter's arrest. Another striking item in the issue was "Pagri Samalo, Jata", a free rendering by Shyamsundar of the poem that used to be sung by the Jats to rouse their countrymen to protest against the imposition of iniquitous taxes. Perseus the Deliverer, Sri Aurobindo's poetic play, began as a serial in the issue of 30 June, and the readers ...
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