Jat, Sangli

Jath जत Jath
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District	Sangli
Government
• Body	Jath Nagarpalika
Area
• Total	2,258.28 km2 (871.93 sq mi)
Population  (2012)
• Total	65,000
• Density	29/km2 (75/sq mi)
Languages
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	416-404
Telephone code	02344
Vehicle registration	MH-10
Coastline	0 kilometres (0 mi)
sangli	Sangli, Vijayapura, Miraj, Kupwad
Literacy	50%
Climate	sunny (Köppen)
Avg. summer temperature	25–40 °C (77–104 °F)
Avg. winter temperature	20–27 °C (68–81 °F)
Website	jath.info

Jat is a town and taluka headquarters in Miraj subdivision of Sangli district in southern Maharashtra. It is often spelled as "Jath" according to South Indian lexical nomenclature. Jat is one of the largest talukas in Maharashtra state. It has been historically demographic part of Man Desh.

It was the former capital of Jath State, one of the non-salute Maratha princely states of British India, under the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency. It was a southern Maratha Jagir.

History

Some sources say, in ancient period, town was called Jayantinagar. Jat was capital of former Maratha Jagir ruled by Dafales. Most of the dynasty period was affiliated to Vijayapura ( Bijapur ). For some period it was associated with Kolhapur as well as Satara Maratha Dynasties. Later Jat became a non-salute princely state until independence of India. Then it was part of Satara district. When Sangli district was formed, Jat became eastern tehsil of Sangli.

Demographics

Official language is Marathi . There is large number of Kannada speaking population, due to Jat's close vicinity of Karnataka.

Culture

Yallamma temple is situated to the South of Jat. It celebrates an annual fair on Chaitra Paurnima (Full Moon) in the month of Margashirsha. It also hosts one of the largest cattle fairs for farmers to sell/buy cattle. The place derives its name from Jath which in Kannada means Ox(cattle).

Guddapur, a village in Jat taluka, is also very famous shrine of Goddess Dhanamma.

Jat is surrounded by various religious places, one of them is Daridev (Dari Appa) this place located south west of Jat near to Muchandi Village. Daridev is an incarnation of lord Shiva, lot of devotees from Maharashtra and Karnataka visit this place during full moon. Annual Fair (Jatra) is celebrated in second week of April each year, this is the time when lot of people come to their home town to visit their God (Kuladaivata).

Near to Jath city on a hill, a very nice temple of Ambabai (Mahalaxmi) is situated. People come to take blessings of Maa Amba during Navaratri Festival.This place used to be a dense forest. However due to less rain and deforestation, greenery of this place is vanishing and we can see only a bare hill with a temple from a remote distance.

References

Bhairavanath temple Billur, jath city south approximetaly 13 Km from the jath towards Athani. Is new constructed temple of the shri kal Bhairavanath god. Shri guru basaweshwar temle is the of the historical place.