Antiquity of Jat Race by US Mahil/Conquest of Britain by Jats
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CONQUEST OF BRITAIN BY JATS
Section 1
(Conquest by Jutes)
(Conquest by Jutes)
The reader should recapitulate Chapter II of this book before reading this Chapter. There I have given detailed reasons to prove conclusively that Jutes, Goths, Danes, Vikings, and Normans all belonged to Jat race. This caution is necessary so that he may disabuse himself from the common error of Historians that Jutes belonged to the same Teutonic race as Angles and Saxons. As a matter of fact, Jutes who lived in quite separate territory from teutonic tribes had the same relationship with Angles and Saxons, as the modern Jats of the Punjab have with the Hindus. I realise that there are some persons in India who insist that Jats belong to Aryan race of Hindus, but no scholar of history can believe in such flagrant confusion of racial distinctions. After this caution I now enter upon an interesting period of Jat history. This period is comparatively modern, because its events are given in detail in so many histories of England which every high school boy has to read and remember. I, therefore, do not propose to chapter give in considerable details all the relevant events which the interested reader may read in any history of England I must, however, give a brief account of the bravery of Jat race as compared with the bravery of Angles and Saxons. It should be noted that from very remote antiquity upto the present times Jats have very often handed over the fruits of their bravery to others. The same thing happened when after founding Manda empire and extending it by their valour, they handed it over ready made to persians as described in Chapter IV. The same thing happened in Britain. We have seen in Chapter VI that when Allari captured Rome in 410, the Roman legions from Britain had to be recalled and there
was Chaos in Britain which was raided from all sides. The miserable condition of the British people is well described in ‘'The Groans of the Britons” which. I presume, every college student has read. At that time the Jats of Jutland called Jutes were well-known for their valour throughout northern Europe. The hard pressed ruler of Britain named Vortigern resolved to request their help in resisting the surrounding raids. They tempted them by the usual promises of land and pay. One of the most important events of Jat history then took place. In 449 A. D. Jats of Jutland under their chiefs Hengest and Horsa landed at Ebbsfleet on the shores of the Isle of Thanet. Jats had no difficulty at all to defeat the raiders named Picts. After getting his purpose accomplished Vortigern wanted to shake off Jats from Britain, but they were captivated by the beautiful scenery of the Island and the fertility of soil. They resolved to stay. Their numbers swelled as the news of the settlement spread in Jutland. Vortigern expressed his inability to supply rations and pay to such a great number of
soldiers. Thanet was still cut off from the mainland by an arm of the sea. The Jats, therefore, resolved to capture the mainland by their force of arms instead of begging rations from the ungrateful and selfish Vortigern. They entered Kent and captured East Kent by their victory at Alesford. There followed a general massacre after that victory. The great fortresses erected along the Saxon Shore in Roman times were taken one by one by the Jat forces and about 23 years after their first landing the whole coast of Kent was in their hands.
Jats had their settlements in the Isle of Wight also. On hearing about the victories of the Jats of Jutland, the mouths of their southern neighbours the Saxons and Angles also began to water. At first the East Saxons invaded the shores of Britain and founded some settlements. Then the West Saxons called Gewissas in their native country invaded Britain. After some initial success they suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Britons at mount Badon in the year 520. The victory of Britons was so decisive in this battle that
for 32 years the west Saxons could not dare to invade Britain. Eventually they requested the help of Jutes or Jats of Jutland which was readily given in the year
552. With that help of Jats the king Cynric of the West Saxons took up the work of invasion by a new advance. This advance was successful and they captured the hill fort of old Sarum. They then completed the conquest of Marlborough Downs. Their victorious advance continued and in 571 under the king Cuthwulf they became masters of the districts now called Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. At the victory of Deorham in 577 they captured the cities of Gloucester, Cirencester and Bath, and the line of the great western river lay open to the arms of the conquerors. The historian Green says that these West Saxons were destined in the end to win the overlordship over every English people. The question arises what happened to the Jutes or Jats by whose help these defeated West Saxons became so victorious in their second invasion of Britain ? What happened to those Jats who under Hengest and Horsa were the pioneers in the conquest of Britain ? I have already mentioned in the previous chapter that throughout ages they have been most careless about keeping the fruits of their valour, and have been handing over ready made empires to other people. The oblivion is so complete that the word Jute or Jat is very rare in the English literature now. The country is named England, the land of Angles, and the race which conquered Britain is called the Anglo-Saxon race. Thirty-two years which passed between the defeat of West Saxons in 520 and their career of victories beginning from 552 is a period full of legends in British history. There is the legend of Arthur just like the legend of Bikramajit of Indian mythology. Welsh legends represent this period as that of the reign of king Arthur. Some modern inquirers have argued that Arthur's kingdom was in the north, while others have argued that it was in the south. The historian Gardiner says that it is quite possible that the name was given by legend to more than one champion, just as the name of Bikramajit was given in the Indian legends to more than one person. I mention this to show the unsatisfactory nature of British history of that period. The only
extant British account of the conquest of Britain is that of the monk Gildas which Green calls diffuse and inflated. This monk was not free from partiality. The reader of the history of England should, therefore, beware about some mistakes of that account which are followed by some historians.
Section 2
(Conquest by Normans)
(Conquest by Normans)
In Chapter II of this book I have explained how Danes, Vikings or Normans were names of the same race of Scythian Jats. The invasion of England by Danes and their struggle with Alfred and his successors, is known to every student of History of England reading in a high school. In 1016 a Danish king Canute the Great reigned in England and not only over England, but over Denmark and Norway. According to H. G. Wells his subjects sailed to Iceland, Greenland and perhaps to American Continent. I propose to mention very briefly the conquest of England by William the conqueror—the great Norman who gave England a line of great English kings. I have mentioned briefly the origin of Normans in Chapter II. I must recapitulate that Normans were none but the Jutes or Jats of Jutland who captured and occupied the northern coast of Trance. They swooped upon northern Trance under Hrolf the Ganger just as their predecessors had swooped upon Britain under Hengest and Horsa. Hrolf wrested from the Trench king Charles the Simple the land on either side of the mouth of Seine river. The treaty in which Trance purchased peace by the cession of the coast was called peace of Clair-sur-Epte of 912. Hrolf received the king’s daughter in marriage and became the first Duke of Normandy (Northman-dy). Normans were so called because they were north men living in Jutland and Norway. William the conqueror was in the
sixth generation from Hrolf the Ganger. The Genealogy is as follows:--
Hrolf 912-927 ↓ William Longsword 927-943 ↓ Richard I, the fearless 943-996 ↓ Richard II 996-1026 _____________↓______________ ↓ ↓ Richard III Robert 1026-1028 1028-1035 ↓ William I, the conqueror 1035-1087 King of England 1066-1087
The conquest of England by William the conqueror and the line of kings which followed is an important part of the history of England. My purpose to mention him in this chapter is simply to show that William the Conqueror was a Jat, having descended from ancestors who lived in Jutland in the north. To support this dictum I must quote the great historian H, G. Wells who in Ch. 32, Sec. 8 of his well known work “The Outline of History” says about Danes and Normans and William the Conqueror as follows:--
- ‘‘Practically, from the standpoint of universal history, all these peoples were the same people, waves of one Nordic stock. These waves were not only flowing westward, but eastward. Already we have mentioned a very interesting earlier movement of the same peoples under the name of Goths from Baltic to the Black Sea. We have traced the splitting of these Goths into the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths and the adventurous wanderings that ended at last in the Ostrogoth kingdom
- in Italy and the Visigoth states in Spain. In the ninth century a second movement of the North-men across Russia was going on at the same time that their establishments in England and their dukedom of Normandy were coming into existence. The population of South Scotland, England, East Ireland, Flanders, Normandy and the Russias have more elements in common than we are accustomed to recognize. All are fundamentally Gothic and Nordic peoples. Even in their weights and measures the kinship of Russian and English is to be noted, both have the Norse inch and foot, and many early Norman churches in England are built on a scale that shows the use of the sajene (7 ft.) and quarter sajene, a Norse measure still used in Russia. These “Russian ’ Norse-men travelled in the summer-time, using the river routes that abounded in Russia, they carried their ships by portages from the northward-running rivers to those flowing southward. They appeared as pirates, raiders and traders both upon the Caspian and the Black Sea. The Arabic chroniclers note their apparition upon the Caspian, and learnt to call them Russian. They raided Persia and threatened Constantinople with a great fleet of small craft (in 865, 904-941 and 1043). One of these Northmen, Rurik (circa 850), established himself as the ruler of Novgorod and his successor, the duke Qleg, took Kief ,and laid the foundations of modern Russia. The fighting qualities of the Russian Vikings were speedily appreciated at Constantinople, the Greeks called them Varangians, and an Imperial Varangian bodyguard was formed. After the conquest of England by the Normans (1066), a number of Danes and English were driven into exile and joined these Russian Varangians, apparently finding few obstacles to intercourse in their speech and habits,
- Meanwhile the Normans from Normandy were also finding their way into the Mediterranean from the West. They came first as mercenaries, and later as independent invaders, and they came mainly, not, it is to be noted, by sea, but in scattered bands by land. They came through the Rhineland and Italy partly in the search for warlike employment and loot, partly as pilgrims. For the ninth and tenth centuries saw a great development of pilgrimage. These Normans, as they grew powerful, discovered themselves such rapacious and vigorous robbers that they forced the Eastern Emperor and the Pope into a feeble and ineffective alliance against them (1053) They defeated and captured and were pardoned by the Pope, they established themselves in Calabria and South Italy, conquered Sicily from the Saracens (1060-1090), and under Robert Guiscard, who had entered Italy as a pilgrim adventurer and began his career as a brigand in Calabria, threatened the Byzantine Empire itself (1081). His army, which contained a contingent of Sicilian Moslems, crossed from Brindisi to Epirus in the reverse direction to that in which Pyrrhus had crossed to attack the Roman Republic, thirteen centuries before (275 B. C.). He laid siege to the Byzantine stronghold of Durazzo.
- Robert captured Durazzo (1082), but the pressure of affairs in Italy recalled him and ultimately put an end to this first Norman attack upon the Empire of Byzantium, leaving the way open for the rule of comparatively vigorous Comnenian dynasty (1081-1204). In Italy, amidst conflicts too complex for us to tell here, it fell to Robert Guiscard to besiege and sack Rome (1084) and Gibbon notes with quiet satisfaction the presence of that contingent of Sicilian Moslems amongst the looters. There were in twelfth century three other Norman attacks upon the Eastern power, one
- by the son of Robert Guiscard and the two others directly from Sicily by sea.”
Again on page 635 of the same chapter he says:--
- “We have, when we are thinking of the present populations of these south Russian regions, to remember also the coming and going of the Northmen between the Baltic and the Black Sea, and bear in mind also that there was a considerable Slavonic population, the heirs and descendants of Scythians, Sarmatians and the like already established in these restless, lawless, but fertile areas. All these races mixed with and reacted upon one another. The Universal prevalence of Slavonic languages, except in Hungary, shows that the population remained predominantly Slav’’.
I have given these long quotations to show clearly that Danes, Normans, Vikings and Goths all belonged to the same Scythian race of Jats.