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Jat1|dʒɑːt|
Also 7 Jett, Jutt, 8 Jaut.
[Hindi Jāṭ.]
A member of an Indian people settled in the Punjab, Sind, and North-West Provinces. Also attrib.
1622in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 90 [There] goeth with the carts 27 Jutts, etc. for their safer passadge. Ibid. 111 A Jett whome some tymes you have [app]roved off for trusty. 1787C. Hamilton Hist. Relation of Rohilla Afgans in N. Provinces of Hindostan 104 By similar means he procured the assistance of Soorâj Mull with a number of Jâts. 1797Encycl. Brit. VIII. 529/1 The Jauts, or Jats. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXIII. 781/2 The Ják'har, Shiyág'hs and Punyás..are all of Jat origin. 1880Encycl. Brit. XIII. 597/2 Early Ját settlements on the shores of the Persian gulf. 1901North Amer. Rev. Feb. 301 The Jats are the most important people in the Punjab. 1946J. H. Hutton Caste in India i. iv. 33 The Jats who form perhaps the most important element in the population of the Punjab may be either Hindu or Sikh or Muslim, though..the typical Punjab Jat is probably a Sikh. The Jat is a typical yeoman, devoted to agriculture and..takes a lower social level than the Rajput. Ibid. 34 The Sikh of Rajput or Jat origin. 1956Singh & Seti in Aiyappan & Ratnam Soc. in India xxii. 241 The Sardars..have been converted from the higher castes of Hindus and Jats. 1964A. Swinson Six Minutes to Sunset iii. 49 Some retired Jat and Sikh police officers. 1972Nat. Geographic Oct. 535/1 Each of the three basic divisions of the Sikhs—Jats, non-Jats, and untouchables—lives behind boundaries that the others cross with difficulty. |