Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c28.s9.5

v2.c28.s9.5

Again, the Jats who embraced the religion of Guru Govind were fused into a perfect brotherhood, differing only where personal interests and jealousies separated them. This compact homogeneity was lacking among the Hindu Jats, where innumerable minute differences of sept or of family-groups within one and the same caste, caused almost the same mutual cleavage as between Brahmans and Shudras. Thus the Jats in the Mirat division are separated into two branches, the Heles and the Dhes, who do not intermarry, the former despising the latter as of less pure blood! Hence, Suraj Mal of Bharatpur failed where Ranjit Singh of Lahor succeeded.