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The Jat people are a community native to India and Pakistan. The following is a list of notable Jats.


Religion

Rulers, chieftains, and warriors

Maharaja Suraj Mal
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Sandhwalia
Nawab Kapur Singh

Revolutionaries and freedom fighters

Bhagat Singh

Politics

India

Sir Chhotu Ram
Charan Singh
Chaudhary Devi Lal
Amarinder Singh

Pakistan

Social reformers

Armed forces

Arjan Singh
Hoshiar Singh Dahiya
Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon

Sports

Boxer Vijender Singh
Yuvraj Singh

Cinema and television

Dara Singh
Dharmendra

Singers

Criminals

Others

See also

References

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  6. ^ Asher, Catherine B.; Talbot, Cynthia (2007) [2006]. India Before Europe. Cambridge University Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-521-80904-7. The more successful among them even rose to the status of minor kings, as we saw with the Jat ruler Badan Singh of Bharatpur.
  7. ^ Singh, Bhagat (April 1987). Singh, Ganda (ed.). "Rise and Fall of Karorsinghia Misal". The Panjab Past and Present. 21 (41). Punjabi University: 21. ISSN 0031-0786. Baghel Singh, a Dhaliwal jat,9 was the resident of Dhariwal which is situated adjacent to Jhabal near Amritsar.
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  21. ^ Husain, S.M. Azizuddin (2014). "1857 as Reflected in Persian and Urdu Documents". In Bates, Crispin (ed.). Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857. Vol. VI: Perception, Narration and Reinvention: The Pedagogy and Historiography of the Indian Uprising. SAGE Publications. p. 187. ISBN 978-81-321-1354-6. People were divided: Jat Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabhgarh was supporting Bahadur Shah, and the Jats of Ghaziabad were supporting the British.
  22. ^ Dhavan, Purnima (2011). When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699–1799. Oxford University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-19-975655-1. Another important figure was Kapur Singh, a Virk Jat from a family of rural zamindars who became an influential political and military leader.
  23. ^ Singh, Kuldip (4 August 1995). "Obituary: The Maharaja of Nabha". The Independent. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Pratap Singh Malvendra Bahadur was born a Jat Sikh of the Sidhu clan, the son of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh, in 1919.
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  26. ^ McLeod, W. H. (2004). Sikhs and Sikhism. Oxford University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-19-566892-6. It is obvious that their leadership was largely in Jaṭ hands and eventually it was a Jaṭ misldār, Rañjīt Siṅgh, who secured total ascendancy.
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  28. ^ Mooney, Nicola (2011). Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams: Identity and Modernity among Jat Sikhs. University of Toronto Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-80-209257-1. Although the maximum area of Punjab was occupied for only a short period of time under the leadership of the famed Jat Maharaja Ranjit Singh ...
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  31. ^ Ray, Sugata (2019). Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850. University of Washington Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-29-574538-1. Adequate monsoon was fundamental for the survival of the primarily agricultural Jat community to which Suraj Mal belonged.
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  35. ^ Ramaswamy, Sumathi (2010). The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India. Duke University Press. p. 218. ISBN 978-0-8223-4610-4. ... Bhagat Singh (b. 1907)—a Punjabi Jat Sikh with avowedly socialist and atheist views on the nation and the world ...
  36. ^ "जाट मेहर सिंह की रचनाएं लोगों को झूमने को करती हैं मजबूर : गजेंद्र फौगाट". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). 18 February 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
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  40. ^ Narayan, Dinesh (2020). The RSS and the Making of the Deep Nation. Penguin Random House. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-670-08997-0. Vajpayee had also contested from Mathura where he lost to the Jat king, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, a Gandhian and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee of 1932.
  41. ^ Bose, Sugata; Jalal, Ayesha (2004). Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-415-30786-4. Shah Mal, a Jat farmer, emerged from relative oblivion to lead the rebellion in Baraut locality in north-western India until he was killed in combat.
  42. ^ "Jat leader Ajit Singh dies of Covid at 82".
  43. ^ "Capt Amarinder Singh is Jat mahasabha chief". Hindustan Times. PTI. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  44. ^ McLeod, W. H.; Fenech, Louis E. (2014). Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-4422-3600-4. BALDEV SINGH (1902–1961). A Jat and an Akali politician prominent in the negotiations for India's independence.
  45. ^ Kumar, Alok (19 January 2014). "Mulayam Singh Yadav trying to don mantle of farmers' leader". The Statesman. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022. ... former agriculture minister and Lok Sabha Speaker Balram Jakhar, a Jat leader, who ...
  46. ^ a b Chowdhry, Prem (2009). Chatterji, Joya (ed.). "'First Our Jobs Then Our Girls': The Dominant Caste Perceptions on the 'Rising' Dalits". Modern Asian Studies. 43 (2). Cambridge University Press: 450. doi:10.1017/S0026749X07003010. JSTOR 20488089. S2CID 145212783. ... the two chief ministers of Haryana, Bansi Lal and Devi Lal (both Jat by caste), ...
  47. ^ Maini, Tridivesh Singh (2011). "Sikh politics and the Indo-Pak relationship". In Ahmed, Ishtiaq (ed.). The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia. Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-415-60227-3. Beant Singh, a Jatt Sikh, was elected as Chief Minister ...
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  49. ^ "Hooda not allowed to visit Rohtak". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 22 February 2016. Archived from the original on 26 June 2016. "I am a Jat. ... " Hooda said.
  50. ^ Metcalf, Barbara D.; Metcalf, Thomas R. (2012). A Concise History of Modern India (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-1-107-02649-0. ... Charan Singh, who as a Jat became India's first non-Brahman prime minister.
  51. ^ Talbot, Ian (1996). Freedom's Cry: The Popular Dimension in the Pakistan Movement and Partition Experience in North-West India. Oxford University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-19-577657-7. Chhotu Ram, the leading Hindu Jat politician, encouraged ...
  52. ^ Thukral, Gobind (21 October 2013). "Arrest of Dal Khalsa member Harsimran Singh lands Zail Singh in a tight spot". India Today. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  53. ^ Sukumar Muralidharan (April 2001). "The Jat patriarch". Frontline. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  54. ^ Singh, Khushwant (2004). A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839–2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-19-567309-8. Gyan Singh Rarewala (b.1901), a Cheema Jat of village Rara in Patiala state, was chief minister of PEPSU; ...
  55. ^ Singh, Dalip (1981). Dynamics of Punjab Politics. Macmillan. p. 269. ISBN 9780836408102. OCLC 610329985. The present Congress Chief Minister (Darbara Singh) and the earlier Chief Ministers (Gurnam Singh, Lachhman Singh Gill and Parkash Singh Badal) have come from the Jat-Sikh community.
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  57. ^ George, Varghese K.; Kaushal, Pradeep (19 January 2008). "Autumn of the Patriarchs". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022. In 1989, Devi Lal invited Surjeet, a fellow Jat, to contest ...
  58. ^ Sisson, J. Richard (November 1966). "Institutionalization and Style in Rajasthan politics". Asian Survey. 6 (11): 605–613. doi:10.2307/2642283. JSTOR 2642283.
  59. ^ Damodaran, Harish (2008). India's New Capitalists: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 266. doi:10.1057/9780230594128. ISBN 978-0-230-20507-9. Similarly, in Haryana, except for Bhagwat Dayal Sharma and Banarsi Das Gupta, whose combined tenure lasted two years, all the CMs have been Jat (Bansi Lal, Devi Lal, Om Prakash Chautala, Hukam Singh, Bhupinder Singh Hooda), Bishnoi (Bhajan Lal), or Ahir (Rao Birendra Singh).
  60. ^ "राजस्थान जाट महासभा कार्यक्रम में उपराष्ट्रपति उम्मीदवार Jagdeep Dhankar". YouTube (in Hindi). Retrieved 30 July 2022. Self-identification between 2:56 and 3:02
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  62. ^ Tambiah, Stanley J. (1996). Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia. University of California Press. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-520-20642-7. ... Partap Singh Kairon, a Jat, who was Congress chief minister of Punjab ...
  63. ^ "Lok Sabha elections 2019: In West Delhi ex-CM's son and sitting MP is in fray against Congress veteran". Hindustan Times. 11 May 2019. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019. Yes, I am a proud Jat, ...
  64. ^ "Veteran Jat leader Ram Niwas Mirdha dead". Times of India. 30 January 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  65. ^ Dushyant Chautala and Deepender Hooda: Gen-next Jat scions searching for new ground India Today
  66. ^ Jaffrelot, Christophe (2010). Religion, Caste and Politics In India. Primus Books. p. 301. ISBN 978-93-80607-04-7. The selection of a Jat, Sahib Singh Verma as chief minister in 1996, ...
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  72. ^ "35 साल त‍क जिनकी बेटी ने लड़ी न्‍याय की लड़ाई, जानिए कौन थे राजा मानसिंह". News18 हिंदी (in Hindi). 21 July 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  73. ^ "His family (poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz family)". Dawn (newspaper). 11 February 2011. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2020. Here lived a small land-owning class of Jat farmers, by caste known as Tataley. They addressed themselves as Chaudhry, from which we know that the given name of the poet was Chaudhry Faiz Ahmed.
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  77. ^ Top guns got Rs 54bn loans written off
  78. ^ Niazi, M. A. (2 May 2016). "Terms of Reference". The Nation. ProQuest 1785752136. Of course, a lot of Jats are politicians. Ch Shujat Hussain has been PM, and Ch Pervez Elahi Deputy PM. Both are Jats. As is former President Rafiq Tarar. And Ashir Azeem might take heart from the DG ISPR, Lt Gen Asim Bajwa, being one too.
  79. ^ Gandhi, Rajmohan (2013). Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten. Aleph Book Company. p. 310. ISBN 978-9-38-227758-3. The Unionists chose Sikander Hayat to succeed Fazl as their leader. A Khattar Jat from Wah, Sikander was a son of the Muhammad Hayat who had served as Nicholson's aide in 1857 before rising in the ranks of Punjab's rural gentry.
  80. ^ "Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan & Allama Iqbal, London, 1930s". 10 November 2017.
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  84. ^ Sisson, Richard (1972). Congress Party in Rajasthan: Political Integration and Institution Building in an Indian State. University of California Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-520-01808-2. The impetus for social innovation also came from among Jat Sadhus ... A number of these religious leaders were active in the creation of schools and community associations. One, Swami Keshwanand, was instrumental in the founding of the Sangaria School ...
  85. ^ Singh, Roopinder (17 September 2017) [First published on 24 December 2004]. "When Arjan Singh sold off his farm for IAF personnel". The Tribune. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022. For this Aulakh Jat, ...
  86. ^ Abhyankar, M. G. (1961). The Rajputana Rifles: A History of the Regiment, 1775–1947. Orient Longmans. p. 354. OCLC 602513424. ... Chhelu Ram who had been mortally wounded at the crisis of the fighting. ... For unparalleled courage and leadership, this Jat from Dhenod Village, Bhiwani, Hissar District earned for his Battalion the second 'Victoria Cross' of the war.
  87. ^ Hickey, Michael (1992). The Unforgettable Army: Slim's XIVth Army in Burma. Spellmount. p. 273. ISBN 978-1-873376-10-2. Naik GIAN SINGH, 4/15th Punjab Regiment (Jat Sikh)
  88. ^ Praval, K. C. (1987). Indian Army After Independence (1st ed.). Lancer International. p. 513. ISBN 978-81-7062-014-3. A Jat from the Sisana village in Rohtak district, Hoshiar Singh was in command of the left forward company of his battalion.
  89. ^ Tripathi, Vineet (15 December 2021). "कर्नल होशियार सिंह की पत्नी को देखते ही राजनाथ सिंह ने छुए पैर, 1971 भारत-पाक युद्ध में खून से लथपथ होने के बावजूद थामी थी मशीनगन". Navbharat Times (in Hindi). Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  90. ^ Marwah, Ved (2009). "India's counterinsurgency campaign in Punjab". In Ganguly, Sumit; Fidler, David P. (eds.). India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons learned. Routledge. p. 101. doi:10.4324/9780203879207. ISBN 978-0-415-49103-7. ... these circumstances changed when command was given to J. F. Ribeiro and K. P. S. Gill, both known for their courage and leadership. The fact that Gill was a Jat Sikh was an added advantage because the Jat Sikhs were leading the insurgency in Punjab.
  91. ^ "Lt Gen Khem Karan Singh:An outstanding military leader". The Tribune. 20 October 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  92. ^ Singh, Khushwant (2004). A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839–2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-19-567309-8. Mohan Singh (b.1909) of village Ugoke (Sialkot district), a Jat of Ghuman sub-caste, joined the army in 1927 as a common sepoy.
  93. ^ "Indo-Pak War 1971". Sankalp India Foundation. 4 January 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  94. ^ Hickey, Michael (1992). The Unforgettable Army: Slim's XIVth Army in Burma. Spellmount. p. 267. ISBN 978-1-873376-10-2. Havildar PARKASH SINGH, 5/8th Punjab Regiment (Jat Sikh)
  95. ^ Abhyankar, M. G. (1961). The Rajputana Rifles: A History of the Regiment, 1775–1947. Orient Longmans. p. 328. OCLC 602513424. A Jat from village Barda in the Narnoul Tehsil of Patiala, Richpal Ram, by his superb gallantry earned for his Regiment and the Division the first Victoria Cross of the War.
  96. ^ Pitt, Barrie (2001). The Crucible of War: Wavell's Command. Vol. 1. Cassell & Co. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-304-35950-9. It was here that Subadar Richpal Ram, a Jat from Patiala State, earned the first of the four Victoria Crosses won by 4th Indian Division during the war, another of which also went to the 4th/6th Rajputana Rifles.
  97. ^ Dabas, Dilbag Singh (12 July 2021). "Brig Sant Singh, MVC and Bar, displayed outstanding gallantry in 1965, 1971 wars". The Tribune. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. He belonged to a marginal Jat Sikh farming family ...
  98. ^ Singh, Khushwant (2004). A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839–2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-19-567309-8. Shahbeg Singh, a Jat Sikh, had a distinguished career in the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 when he trained the Mukti Bahini guerilias.
  99. ^ @Vedmalik1 (14 April 2022). "Thank you. Proud to be part of warrior community" (Tweet). Retrieved 28 July 2022 – via Twitter.
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