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Anti-colonialists
Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary who became a symbol of resistance against British colonial rule.
Sardar Ajit Singh,[9] revolutionary and uncle ofBhagat Singh, best known for leading thePagri Sambhal Jatta movement against British agrarian laws and for his lifelong struggle in exile against colonial rule.
Rajaram Jat,[73] rebel leader and successor ofGokula, who continued resistance against Mughal rule in the late 17th century. Notable for desecration ofAkbar tomb
^Banerjee, Himadri (2017)."RememberingKomagata Maru: its many journeys, 1914–2014". In Roy, Anjali Gera; Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar (eds.).Diasporas and Transnationalisms: The Journey of the Komagata Maru. Routledge. p. 214.ISBN978-1-138-70190-8.The news of the voyage to Vancouver under the leadership Gurdit Singh (1859–1954), a Jat Sikh frommajha, reached the immigrant Sikhs in Howrah and Kolkata.
^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.ISBN978-81-321-1354-6.People were divided: Jat Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabhgarh was supporting Bahadur Shah, and the Jats of Ghaziabad were supporting the British.
^Nijjar, Bakhshish Singh (1996).History of the United Panjab. Atlantic Publishers & Dist.ISBN978-81-7156-535-1.He was the son of Sar- dar Kishan Singh Sandhu Jat and Shrimati Vidyavati and nephew of Sardar Ajit Singh.
^Singh, Khushwant (2004).A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839–2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 191.ISBN978-0-19-567309-8.Teja Singh Swatantra (b.1901), a Jat Sikh of village Aluna (Gurdaspur district), was active in the Akali and Congress movements.
^abcVirk, Kulwant Singh (11 April 1976).Singh, Khushwant (ed.)."Peasant Communities of Punjab".The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 97, no. 15. p. 19.The Jats of Punjab have produced many men of renown. One of the most illustrious was Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780–1839). ... In the Services are former Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh and Lt Gen Harbakhsh Singh who played a major role in the 1965 War. Nirmaljit Singh won the first Param Vir Chakra for the IAF.
^Abhyankar, M. G. (1961).The Rajputana Rifles: A History of the Regiment, 1775–1947.Orient Longmans. p. 354.OCLC602513424.... 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.
^Praval, K. C. (1987).Indian Army After Independence (1st ed.). Lancer International. p. 513.ISBN978-81-7062-014-3.A Jat from the Sisana village in Rohtak district, Hoshiar Singh was in command of the left forward company of his battalion.
^Singh, Khushwant (2004).A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839–2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 243.ISBN978-0-19-567309-8.Mohan Singh (b.1909) of village Ugoke (Sialkot district), a Jat of Ghuman sub-caste, joined the army in 1927 as a common sepoy.
^Balakrishnan, S. (24 December 1989).Nandy, Pritish (ed.)."Free at Last!".The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 110. p. 8.Even as the troops led by Lt Gen Ranjit Singh Dyal, a Jat Sikh officer, stormed the temple complex where Bhindranwale and Amrik Singh were holed up, ...
^Singh, Khushwant (2004).A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839–2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 335.ISBN978-0-19-567309-8.Shahbeg Singh, a Jat Sikh, had a distinguished career in the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 when he trained the Mukti Bahini guerilias.
^abBANERJI, RANA (21 November 2023)."Shenanigans Surface In Pakistan Military".Rediff. Retrieved22 February 2024.[Air Chief Zaheer Sidhu] hailed from Chakwal and was a 'Jutt' (Jat), the samebiradari (clan) as General Bajwa
^Singh, K. P. (Kushal Pal) (2011).Whatever the odds : the incredible story behind DLF. New Delhi : HarperCollins Publishers India, a joint venture with The India Today Group. p. 88.ISBN978-93-5029-134-4.My Jat origins and family were to come to my rescue on another occasion, this time in a rather bizarre incident
^Kumar, Anuj (8 January 2015)."From ugly to lovely".The Hindu.Archived from the original on 14 August 2020."I am a Jat boy from Haryana ... ," says Darshan, ...
^Oldenburg, Veena Talwar (2002).Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime. Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-515072-8.Heer and Ranjha, was sung by minstrels throughout the Punjab. Ranjha was a handsome Muslim Jat who was smitten by love for the beautiful Heer, of the Sial clan from the Jhang in western Punjab
^Grewal, Reeta; Banga, Indu; Pall, Sheena, eds. (2005).Precolonial and colonial Punjab: society, economy, politics and culture; essays for Indu Banga (1. publ ed.). New Delhi: Manohar Publ.ISBN978-81-7304-654-4.Mirza was the son of Banjal, a Kharal Jat Chief of Danabad in the Montgomery district. Sahiban was the daughter of the Jat Chief Khiva Khan belonging to the Syal clan
^Asher, Catherine B.; Talbot, Cynthia (2007) [2006].India Before Europe. Cambridge University Press. p. 272.ISBN978-0-521-80904-7.The more successful among them even rose to the status of minor kings, as we saw with the Jat ruler Badan Singh of Bharatpur.
^Roy, Kaushik (2015)."British-India and Afghanistan: 1707–1842". In Roy, Kaushik; Lorge, Peter (eds.).Chinese and Indian Warfare – From the Classical Age to 1870. Routledge. p. 97.ISBN978-0-415-50244-3.The Jat Raja Suraj Mal advised the Marathas to conduct guerrilla warfare against Ahmad Shah for several reasons.
^McLeod, W. H.; Fenech, Louis E. (2014).Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 243.ISBN978-1-4422-3600-4.PHULA SINGH (c. 1761–1823). ... He was a Jat, son of an attendant at Akal Takhat, and upon joining the Akalis became their most famous leader.
^Thornton, S. A. (2008)."BHAGO, MAI". InSmith, Bonnie G. (ed.).The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 226.ISBN978-0-19-514890-9.BHAGO, MAI (fl. 1699–1708), ... Hers was a family of the Dhillon clan of thejat ...
^Gayer, Laurent (2012). "Des « Princesses » chez les « Lions ». Parcours de vie de recrues féminines dans la Guérilla Sikhe (1984-1995)". InJaffrelot, Christophe; Mohammad-Arif, Aminah (eds.).Politique et religions en Asie du Sud: le sécularisme dans tous ses états? (in French). Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales. p. 287.doi:10.4000/books.editionsehess.22356.ISBN978-2-7132-2323-5.Mai Bhago, une Jat du clan Dhillon, s'illustra au début du XVIIIe siècle en combattant les armées mogholes pour le compte de Gourou Gobind Singh. [Mai Bhago, a Jat of the Dhillon clan, distinguished herself at the beginning of the 18th century by fighting the Mughal armies on behalf of Guru Gobind Singh.]
^McLeod, W. H. (2004).Sikhs and Sikhism. Oxford University Press. p. 18.ISBN978-0-19-566892-6.It is obvious that their leadership was largely in Jaṭ hands and eventually it was a Jaṭ misldār, Rañjīt Siṅgh, who secured total ascendancy.
^Khan, Iqbal Ghani (2002). "Technology and the Question of Elite Intervention in Eighteenth-Century North India". In Barnett, Richard B. (ed.).Rethinking Early Modern India. Manohar Publishers & Distributors. p. 271.ISBN978-81-7304-308-6."Thus we witness the Ruhelas accepting an exceptionally talented non-Afghan, an adopted Jat boy, as their nawab, purely on the basis of his military leadership..."
^Gazetteers Of The Gujranwala District 1893–94. Punjab Government. 1895. "The most powerful of the Jat tribes on the Chenab was that of the Chatthas. Under Nur Muhammad they became so powerful that the Lahore government was practically set at defiance."
^Singh, Harbans (1995).The Encyclopedia of Sikhism – Volume I A-D. Punjabi University Patiala. "The Chatthas were influential Jat landlords... Nur Muhammad, a powerful chief of the clan, resisted Mir Mannu's authority."
^Vedam, Venkatesh (24 January 2022).The Puffin Book of 100 Extraordinary Indians. Penguin Random House India Private Limited.ISBN978-93-5492-361-6.Amrita's childhood was quite eventful. After her eighth birthday, Amrita's father, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Jat Sikh aristocrat
^The Illustrated Weekly of India. Published for the proprietors, Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press. 1976.Jats of Punjab have produced many men of renown. One of the most illustrious was Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( 1780-1839 ). One of India's greatest modern painters, Amrita Sher - Gil, was the daughter of a Jat father
^"His family (poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz family)".Dawn (newspaper). 11 February 2011.Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved9 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.
^abFranda, Marcus (1983). "Gulzar Singh Sandhu". In Franda, Marcus (ed.).Punjabis, War and Women: The Short Stories of Gulzar Singh Sandhu. Heritage Publishers. p. 25.ISBN978-0-8364-0936-9.Virk's background resembles that of Sandhu and Sekhon to a remarkable degree. ... All three are Jat Sikhs who went on to get Master's degrees in English and secure government-dependent jobs (Sandhu and Virk have worked in agriculture and communications for the government almost all of their lives, Sekhon was a Principal in government aided colleges).
^Sharma, Sarika (20 October 2015)."Coming next from Nagra's pen: Verses around radio".The Times of India.Archived from the original on 8 November 2020."... I am from a jat caste and have explored caste issues as they are played out in Britain and how we view India. ..." Nagra says.
^Singh, Khushwant (2004).A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839–2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 283.ISBN978-0-19-567309-8.Gyan Singh Rarewala (b.1901), a Cheema Jat of village Rara in Patiala state, was chief minister of PEPSU; ...
^abSingh, Dalip (1981).Dynamics of Punjab Politics. Macmillan. p. 269.ISBN9780836408102.OCLC610329985.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.
^abSingh, Satindra."Akali Bid For Tie-Up With Cong (I) Fails".The Tribune.Archived from the original on 20 June 2020.Mr. Zail Singh, it may be noted, is not averse to a Congress (I)-Akali electoral alliance as it would help him ward off the joint attack of three factions led by Mr. Darbara Singh, Mr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon, Mr Harcharan Singh Brar – all Jats – against his supremacy in the Punjab Congress (I).
^Sharma, Gauri (2004). Sabbarwal, Sherry (ed.)."Mughal Wazirs as Harbingers of A Socio-Cultural and Literary Movement".Research Journal Social Sciences.12 (1).Panjab University: 147.ISSN0251-348X.In fact, barring Giani Zail Singh, all the other chief ministers (Justice Gurnam Singh, Lachaman Singh Gill, Prakash Singh Badal, Surjit Singh Barnala, Darbara Singh, Beant Singh, H. S. Brar, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, and Capt. Amrinder Singh) belonged to the Jat Sikh community.
^"Prestige of 3 Ministers at stake in UP".The Pioneer. 11 April 2019.Archived from the original on 29 January 2022.Ajit Singh, a Jat by caste, is the alliance candidate from Muzaffarnagar and will be up against BJP MP Sanjeev Baliyan, who is a prominent Jat leader.
^Shrader, Lawrence L. (2015) [1968]."Rajasthan". InWeiner, Myron (ed.).State Politics in India.Princeton University Press. p. 380.ISBN978-1-4008-7914-4.Two Jat deputy ministers, Kamla Beniwal (Jaipur district) and Daulat Ram Saran (Churu district) announced their resignations at the same time.
^abShrader, Lawrence L. (2015) [1968]."Rajasthan". InWeiner, Myron (ed.).State Politics in India.Princeton University Press. p. 349.ISBN978-1-4008-7914-4.Of the four other ministers who served in both periods, two were the Jat leaders—Kumbharam Arya and Nathu Ram Mirdha—and the third was ...
^Kumar, Ashok (3 November 2013)."The twists and turns of Jat politics".The Hindu.Archived from the original on 5 March 2022.In 1984, the Congress chose Jat leader Choudhary Bharat Singh as its Lok Sabha candidate for Outer Delhi ...
^Nangia, Bimla (1985). Singh, Harnam (ed.)."Eighth Lok Sabha Election in Delhi: An Analysis".The Indian Political Science Review.XIX (1 & 2).University of Delhi:169.ISSN0019-6126.OCLC1586084.Choudhary Bharat Singh, Congress (I) nominee and Tarif Singh of Dalit Mazdoor Kisan Party, bothJats of Outer Delhi with rural background contested the Lok Sabha election for the first time from this constituency.
^"Who's who: Divergence in diversity".India Today. 29 January 2015. Retrieved25 October 2025.Gayatri Devi, 75, was born in a Jat family in Haryana. A devout Arya Samajist, she has been her husband, Charan Singh's, closest companion.
^Singh, Khushwant (2004).A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839–2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 339.ISBN978-0-19-567309-8.Jagdev Singh, born 1927, is a Gill Jat from the village of Talwandi (District Ludhiana). ... Harchand Singh (1934–85) was a Diya Jat from the village of Gideryani (District Sangrur).
^"5-time MLA passes away at the age of 97".Hindustan Times. 1 December 2022. Retrieved25 October 2025.Known also for his contribution to Braj literature, Jat leader Chaudhary Badan Singh had penned at least three books based on Braj literature and had massive information on folk songs sung in marriages in the rural belt.
^Narang, Amarjit Singh (2014)."The Shiromani Akali Dal". InSingh, Pashaura; Fenech, Louis E. (eds.).The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies. Oxford University Press. p. 342.ISBN978-0-19-969930-8.Soon the leadership of Master Tara Singh (a non-Jat urban Sikh) was replaced by that of Sant Fateh Singh, a rural Jat.
^George, Varghese K.; Kaushal, Pradeep (19 January 2008)."Autumn of the Patriarchs".The Indian Express.Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved6 March 2022.In 1989, Devi Lal invited Surjeet, a fellow Jat, to contest ...
^Sisson, J. Richard (November 1966). "Institutionalization and Style in Rajasthan politics".Asian Survey.6 (11):605–613.doi:10.2307/2642283.JSTOR2642283.
^Singh, Bhanu Pratap (11 November 2011)."Maderna's political career doomed".The Times of India. Retrieved14 October 2025.The doom for Mahipal Maderna springs mainly from his 'not so impressive' hold over even his own Jat community.
^"भरतपुर के जाटों का कहां से है निकास? विश्वेन्द्र सिंह ने खुले मंच से बताया, भगवान कृष्ण से बताया कनेक्शन".Patrika News (in Hindi). 24 June 2025. Retrieved24 October 2025.खुद पूर्व मंत्री विश्वेंद्र सिंह ने 4 जनवरी 2023 को पैंघोर के मंदिर में हुई पंचायत में कहा था कि उनके पूर्वज जाट थे, जाट हैं और जाट रहेंगे। [Former minister Vishvendra Singh himself stated during a panchayat held at the Painghor temple on 4 January 2023 that his ancestors were Jats, are Jats, and will remain Jats.]
^Niazi, M. A. (2 May 2016). "Terms of Reference".The Nation.ProQuest1785752136.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.
^Jones, Philip E. (2003).The Pakistan People's Party: Rise to Power. Oxford University Press. p. 345.ISBN978-0-19-579966-8.In the contest, Nawabzada Asghar Ali (MLA, 1943-1956; MWPA, 1965), the traditional head of the Gujjar Tribes, and QML candidate, was defeated by Chaudhury Zahur Illahi of the CML. The latter is a Waraich Jat by social background and a prominent industrialist by occupation.
^Siṅgh, Bhagat (2002). "BIDHĪ CHAND, BHĀĪ (d. 1640)". InSingh, Harbans (ed.).The Encyclopaedia of Sikhism. Vol. I (4th ed.).Punjabi University. pp. 367–368.ISBN978-81-7380-100-6.OCLC808441524.BIDHĪ CHAND, BHĀĪ (d. 1640), warrior as well as religious preacher of the time of Gurū Hargobind, was a Chhīnā Jaṭṭ of the village of Sūrsiṅgh, 34 km south of Amritsar ...
^Murphy, Anne (2003)."TĒJAJI". InMills, Margaret A.; Diamond, Sarah; Claus, Peter J. (eds.).South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 596.ISBN978-0-415-93919-5.Tējaji was a Jāt of Karnala near Nagaur, in Marwar
^"Battle of Dholpur in 1803".Amrit mahotsav.At the same time, the British also helped the Jats led by Rana Kirat Singh, to win the Gohad region from the Scindias. As part of an arrangement made by the Company, Rana Kirat Singh was given Dholpur and the former took over Gohad. Thus, the Dholpur state was formed and Rana Kirat Singh was declared its ruler in 1805.
^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.
^"Dr. Abdus Salam: The Coffee House of Lahore By K K Aziz".Sangat Review. Archived from the original on 24 May 2024.Salam was the son of Chaudhri Muhammad Husain, a schoolteacher of Jhang and Hajirah who belonged to Faizullah Chak near Batala Muhammad Husain was a jat and Hajirah a Kakkezai.
^Singh, Satendra (2017)."Perseverance Pays". In Halder, Santoshi; Assaf, Lori Czop (eds.).Inclusion, Disability and Culture: An Ethnographic Perspective Traversing Abilities and Challenges. Springer. p. 44.ISBN978-3-319-55223-1.I was a Jaat! I realized for the first time that caste politics played a very important role in the political scenario.
^Tamta, Prashant (6 August 2024)."Who is Arshad Nadeem, the main challenger of Neeraj Chopra in Paris Olympics?".DNA. Retrieved16 August 2024.Born into a Punjabi Jat family in Pakistan's Punjab, he is the third-oldest among eight siblings. Nadeem made his debut at the Olympics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were held in 2021.
^Rataul, Dharmendra (4 May 2009)."With development as poll pitch, he pulls crowds with Sidhuisms".The Indian Express.Archived from the original on 11 October 2020."No if, no but, it's only Jat" — this dialogue from Jo Bole So Nihal comes in handy for BJP's sitting MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, who hastens to add "and vote for this Jat" while campaigning in his constituency.
^Praveen Kumar (28 December 2019).जाट होने पर गर्व है - प्रवीन कुमार [Proud to be Jat - Praveen Kumar] (in Hindi). Comment occurs between 0:03 and 0:05 – via YouTube.मुझे गर्व है मैं जाट हूँ। [I am proud to be Jat.]
^Sharma, Devesh (24 July 2020)."Movie Review: Saand Ki Aankh".Filmfare.Archived from the original on 30 April 2021.The lives of 'revolver dadis' Chandro Tomar and Prakashi Tomar is proof enough of that. ... Coming from a patriarchal jat family, their accomplishments paved the way for women in and around Baghpat to take up the sport.
^Selvaraj, Jonathan (14 December 2015)."Who wants to fight this girl?".The Indian Express.Archived from the original on 15 December 2015.Guru Chandgi Ram and Mahavir Phogat had the advantage of being in positions of power. ... And they were both Jats, who had a say in thekhap.
^"Mahapanchayat urges Centre to appoint jat judge in SC".The Times of India. 14 September 2012. Retrieved18 September 2025.Justice (retd) Devi Singh Tewatia, who was the chief justice of Calcutta high court in 1988, happens to be the only jat to have become an HC chief justice
^Gen. Malik confirms[28] after being congratulated for being a 'Jat' by a twitter account[29]
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