Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c28.s8.2

v2.c28.s8.2

"The Jat is, in every respect, the most important of the Panjab peoples. In point of numbers he surpasses the Rajput, who comes next to him, in the proportion of nearly three to one. In Bikaner Jaisalmer and Marwar, they possibly equal in number all the Rajput races put together." [Ibbetson, in ii. 366-69.] Broadly speaking, the Jat is a Musalman in the Western District (i. e., Panjab west of the Ravi), a Sikh in the Centre, and a Hindu in the South-east." Such is the distribution of the Jats in the Panjab, but the historian of Delhi is interested in the tribal population of the Panjab only so far as they merge their Jat race in the Sikh sect. [Rose's *Glossary of Panjab Tribes*.]