Gat
Gat (गाट)[1] Gaat (गात), Ghat (घाट) is a Hindu Jat Gotra. The Jats of Gaat, Gat, Gatt gotra are found in Haryana and Rajasthan. Gat (गाट) Jat clan is found in Afghanistan also.[2] Gat (गत) is a Muhammadan Jat clan found in Montgomery, Pakistan[3].
Origin
History
Hukum Singh Panwar writes:[4] There is every probability that 'ngiwattia' was transformed into Gut-tia, and was abbreviated as Guti or Gut in course of time.
We may also note that what MacRitchie has observed : namely that the form Jaut of Jat, (which he came across in the memoirs of Lord Combermare), appears to offer the best compromise...with the popular English form as a similar word Ghat, viz. Ghaut[5] which exactly sounds like Chinese, ngiwat. It is significant, further, that British officers called Jat as Gat but in writing that they spelt it as Gat or Gaut[6]
Hukum Singh Panwar [7] It was Calvin Kephart[8] who, for the first time, declared that
The implications of this concept were radical and far reaching, for it meant that the distinction between brachycephalic and dolichocephalic characteristics became irrelevant. If Cuno's axiom that language is no test of a race, demolished the thesis of the Scythic origin of the Jats in India and that of the Aryan origin of the German in Europe, Calvin Kephart's formulation dismissed as untenable Risleys artificial distinction between the Aryans and the Scythians, which in fact, belonged to the same race-the white race[9] which later became famous as Aryan or Nordic or Causasian race. He,however, opened up new vistas for fresh approach in the study of the German Goths and Indian Jats who were also occasionally described[10] as Gaut or Gat or Ghator (in plural) in India by some British scholars.
Distribution in Rajasthan
Villages in Hanumangarh district
Villages in Nagaur district
Villages in Bikaner district
Villages in Churu district
Distribution in Haryana
Villages in Sirsa district
Villages in Hisar district
Notable persons
- Vijender Singh Gatt is retired officer of the Indian Army Army who took part in Kargil Operation in 1999 at Leh (Ladakh) in Jammu and Kashmir. He is from village Ludesar in Sirsa district in the Indian state of Haryana.
- Jetha Ram Gat (जेठाराम गाट) is International Player in Cycling from Karmisar in Bikaner distriuct, Rajasthan.
- Vijai Singh Gat (Naib Risaldar) became martyr on 13.09.1965 at Sialkot during Indo-Pak War-1965. He was from Ludesar Village in Sirsa district in the Indian state of Haryana.
- Unit: 2 Lancers Regiment.
- Pawan Gaat : पवन गाट ने चाइना ताइपे में आयोजित तीरन्दाज़ी एशिया कप में व्यक्ति स्पर्धा में गोल्ड मेडल एवं टीम स्पर्धा में सिल्वर मेडल जीतकर भारत देश एवं गाट समाज का नाम रोशन किया।[11] RK Gaat on Facebook]
External links
See also
Gallery of Gat people
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Pawan Gaat
References
- ↑ डॉ पेमाराम:राजस्थान के जाटों का इतिहास, 2010, पृ.299
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.135
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/G,p.280
- ↑ The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations/Jat-Its variants, pp.346
- ↑ Mac. Ritchie, op.cit., p. 78.
- ↑ Princep, Sett, R. of Sialkot, S. 136; 1865. H.A Rose, Gloss. of Trib. and Castes Vol. III, p. 416.
- ↑ The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations/The Scythic origin of the Jats, p. 185
- ↑ Races of Mankind (Their Origin and Migration), Peter Owen Ltd., London, 1961, p. 261.
- ↑ Rice, T.T.; Scythians, London, 1961, p. 39.
- ↑ Settlement Report of Distt. Sialkote. Sec. 36. Rose. Gloss. Vol.III. p. 416.
- ↑ [https://www.facebook.com/100047606812029/posts/pfbid0yHX3vqUsWDFeGYr7QhaG1re1Q4WJCuwfoDVVppQRHMyn78WZXnfCFAc4x1qVWPjGl/?mibextid=Nif5oz
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