24/09/2021
The Jat people (also spelled Jatt (Punjabi pronunciation: and Jaat (Hindi pronunciation:[1] also pronounced Jutt (Urdu: مسلمان جٹ) are a traditionally agriculture based community largely in rural parts of Northern India and Pakistan.[2][a][b][c] Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times by the thirteenth century,[6] and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and 18th centuries.[7][8][9] Of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh faiths, they are now found mostly in the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Punjab
