Jats of Balochistan
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab | |
| Languages | |
| Balochi, Sindhi, Saraiki and Jadgali languages | |
| Religion | |
| Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| • Baloch people • Jat Muslims |
The Jat (jath) is tribe of Baloch origin[1] found in the Balochistan and Sindh province of Pakistan.[2][3] They are estimated to be around 10% of the total population of Balochistan and 90% in Sindh, being the fourth largest ethnic group of Pakistan. A large proportion are in the profession of camel herding.[4] Jadgals are another Jat ethnic group living in Balochistan and Sindh province[5]Jat is a Sindhi Baloch tribe
List of tribes
The major Jat tribes in Balochistan include:
History
By the time of Muhammad bin Qasim's conquest of Sind in the eighth century, Arab writers described agglomerations of Jats and Meds in the arid, the wet, and the mountainous regions of the conquered [9] and Makran regions of today's Pakistani province of Balochistan, The Arabs referred to the Jats as "Zutts" (Arabic: الزُّطِّ). The Jats were present in Makran and Lasbela long before the migration of ancestors of the Baloch from Kerman, Khorasan and the Sistan and Baluchistan provinces of present day Iran. The Arab rulers though professing a theologically egalitarian religion, maintained the position of Jats and the discriminatory practices against them that had been put in place in the long period of Hindu rule in Sind between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.
See also
References
- ^ Khan, Sabir Badal (2013). tribe&pg=PA61 Two Essays on Baloch History and Folklore: Two Essays on Baloch History and Folklore. Università di Napoli, "l'Orientale". p. 61.
{{cite book}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Baluchistan (Pakistan) (1979). tribe Jat Through the Ages: Tribes (reprint ed.). Nisa Traders (sole distributors Gosha-e-Adab).
{{cite book}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Sir Richard Francis Burton (1898). William Henry Wilkins (ed.). The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam. H. S. Stone. p. 215.
- ^ Westphal-Hellbusch, Sigrid; Westphal, Heinz (1986). The Sindhi Jat of Pakistan is a baloch tribe. Lok Virsa.
- ^ "Oman's Diverse Society: Northern Oman" (PDF). JE Peterson.
- ^ Baluch, Muhammad Sardar Khan (1977). History of Baluch Race and Baluchistan. Gosha-e-Adab : distributers Nisa Trader. p. 268.
...Bizanjo, Mengal, Sajdi and Zehri as Jadgal or Jats...
- ^ "The Brahuis are not Brahuis". Araingang.
- ^ ʻAlī, Anṡārī ʻAlī Sher (1901). A Short Sketch, Historical and Traditional, of the Musalman Races Found in Sind, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, Their Genealogical Sub-divisions and Septs, Together with an Ethnological and Ethnographical Account. Printed at the Commissioner's Press.
- ^ Mayaram, Shail (2003). Against history, against state : counterperspectives from the margins. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12730-8. OCLC 52203150.