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History of Origin of Some Clans in India

(with special Reference to Jats)

By Mangal Sen Jindal (1992)

Publisher - Sarup & Sons, 4378/4B, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002, ISBN 81-85431-08-6


The text of this chapter has been converted into Wiki format by Laxman Burdak

Chapter 1: Jat From Jutland


Habitation

"The New Stone Age (before 3000 B.C.) saw the introduction of an occupation that was to have vital importance of


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Denmark thereafter; namely, agriculture. The arts of taming animals and growing cereals were learnt; through several intermediaries from the ancient civilizations of the Near East." Page 61 of Denmark Official Handbook.

"She (Denmark) came to occupy a key position at the outlet of the Baltic. In successive combination she clashed with the English, German princes, and Norwegian and Swedish kings. The period of expansion lasted until about 1600 and and followed by the struggle to preserve the national territory against expanding rivals: Swedish power in Scania ; Germany in the border regions of southern Jutland. In the long run Danish foreign policy was dictated by her relations with the western maritime powers on the one hand and the great continental powers on the other." Page 69 of Denmark Official Handbook.

Jats, wherever in the world, have adopted to cultivation and pastoral life. They are the best cultivators in the world.

Jutland is certainly the homeland of all the Jats. The Jats being of militant nature, seem to have turned to the west of the common house and conquering Mesopotamia, Syria, Germany reached the Baltic Sea to establish permanently in Jutland consisting of modern Denmark, Gothland, Sweden and Norway. Jut is a name that later grew into Jat, Got, Goth, Zott, Jit etc. The Jats of Eurasia seem to have remembered Jutland (Jatisthan) as their home but have forgotten its location. Please examine the following quotations :

"Migrating races look back to the land of their origin for centuries. The Parsis in India remember their origin after 800 years. The ancient Egyptions and the Phoenicians remembered their respective lands of origin even though they have forgotten their location.... Indian People, Vol. I, page 216.

"That from the Indo-Iranians common house the pre-Indians and the pre-Iranian expanded in two almost opposite directions ..... Indian People Vol. I, page 219.

"Sweden has experienced some very dynamic periods in her history when people from this outlying northern Peninsula


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travelled South to the cradles of Western civilization and helped to shape European history. Two such period stand out, and in both cases, the Sweden came to be as much feared as honoured. The first outward thrust occurred at a time of stagnation for Western culture: between 800 and 1050 A.D. when the vikings pushed eastward from Scandinavia and followed the water routes leading through Russia to the Black Sea or headed westwards towards the Atlantic littoral and the British Isles." ..... Profile of Sweden, page 9.

"Summing up what we have said so far, the Swedes live together in very small family units, so there is every reason to speak of the nuclear family in a quite litaral sense. Contacts with relatives have decreased as a result of heavy internal migration during the past few decades; relatives are widely dispersed and the distances in Sweden are onsiderable. For many urban families however, visits to relatives in the country are still a popular vocation pastime; yet such retarives are becoming fewer in number as urbanisation proceeds." Profile of Sweden, page 37.

"Man has lived in Norway for at least 10,000 years, but the country did not become really settled until historical times. The majority of the population today belong to the Nordic race tall, fair, long skulled people, and most of them have blue eyes," Facts about Norway, page 8.

Sir Henry Elliot affirms, that in these provinces the tribe has two great divisions. "The Dhe and the Hele of the Doab, or Pachhade and Deswale of Rohilkhand and Delhi. The former (the Dhe and [[Pachhade) are later swarm from that teeming hive of nations which has been winging its way from the North West from time immemorial." Hindu Tribes and Castes, Vol. I, page 233.

"In Sweden in the seventeenth century marriages outside the clan was punished. According to the German Civil Law the marriage of a man belonging to the high nobility with a woman of inferior birth is still regarded as disparaging and the woman is not entitled to the rank of her husband nor is


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the full right of inheritance possessed by her or her children," History of Caste, page 29,

"It (USSR) is a multi-national state inhabited by more than 100 nationalities and peoples." Geography of U.S.S.R., page 35.

"At present population of Jats including Sikh Jats (in India) is approximately 9.6 Million. But in 4th century B.C., it was five times." Page 2 of Jat Itihas. Jutland was populated exclusively by Jats. In Norway, Sweden, Germany and Spain also they were not less numerous. To avoid christianity some Jats came to India from near around Caspian Sea, Dhai or Dhayai are well known, page 4 of Jat Itihas, Jats in Arab, Iran, Afghanistan and Bilauchistan were usurped by Islam.

Shri Desraj quotes History of Medieval Hindu India by C.B. Vaid saying-"Their (Jats) ethonological characteristics also, as we have already seen, are clearly Aryans. They are fair, tall, high nosed and long headed They are mentioned in the Mahabharat as Jartas in the Karna Parva," page 9. In Punjab, instead of Jat, the pronunciation is Jut or Jutt, page 12.

Shri Desraj quotes Mr. Nessfield on page 16, "If appearance goes for anything Jats could not but be Aryans." On page 43 he again quotes his saying, "The word Jat is nothing more than the modern Hindi pronunciation of Yadu or Jadu the tribe in which Krishna was born." This does not seem to be correct since Jat in fourteenth century could be located in (i) India, (ii) Uzbekistan, (iii) Jutland, (iv) Gotland, and (v) Gothland, side by side while to my knowledge, Yadus are not located outside India pp. 9. 12,43 of Jat Itihas.

Shri Desraj quotes religions book of Scandinavia namely Aidda (एडडा ) saying that ancient inhabitants of Scandinavia were Jitts (जटेस) and Jits (जिटस) who were called Aryans and they were originally residents of Asigarh which is situated in Distt. Neemar in Malwa, page 61 of Jat ltihas. He further quotes one Scandinavians Mr. Count Jansturn who says that Scandinavians came from India, page 61. Scandinavia is


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an ill pronunciation of Skandhnabh (स्कंधनाभ), page 61 of Jat ltihas.

"How perfectly in unison is all this of the Jits of Jutland and the Jits of Rajasthan. In each case the hair is the chief object of admiration; of Balnath as balder and the magical effect of the Runes is not more powerful than that attached by the chief of the scalds of our Gete prince at the end of this inscription, fresh evidences in support of my hypothesis, that may of the Rajpoot races and Scandinavians have a common origin-that origin, Central Age.

Note 2 : Salpoora is the name of the capital of this Jit prince and his epithet of Sal-indra is merely titular, as the Indra, or lord of Sal-poori, 'the city of Sal' which the fortunate discovery of an inscription raised by Komarpal, king of Anhulwarra (Nehrwalla of D' Anille) dated S. 1207, has enabled me to place "at the base of the Sewaluk Mountains," In order to elucidate this point, and to give the full value of this record of the Jit princess of the Punjab. I append (No. V) a translation of the Nehrwalla conqueror's inscription, which will prove beyond a doubt that these Jit princes of Salpoori in the Punjab were the leaders of that very colony of the Yuti from the Jaxartes, who in the fifth century, as recorded by De Guignes, crossed the Indus and possessed themselves of the Punjab, and strange to say, have again risen to power, for the Sikhs (disciples) of Nanak are almost all of Jit Origin." Annals of Rajasthan, Vol. I, page 623.

"But the primary significance attached to the term 'Aryan' by Penka is the physical type represented by the Scandinavians. It is not to be wondered therefore, that starting with this assumption Penka succeeded in proving, at least to his own satisfaction, that Scandinavia was the cradle- land of the lndo-European." Page 209 of Indian People Vol. I (The distinguished author Shri R.C. Majumdar in his valuable work "The History and Culture of the Indian People" Volume 1- the Vedic Age on, page 214 remarks "It is curious to note that both Penka (op. cit., page 56) and Tilak (See his Arctic Home in the Vedas), independently of each other, arrived at


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the conclusion that the original home of the Aryans was situated in the Polar region. Penka depended on the evidence of Odyssey X-81-6, where short nights are spoken of. In the Vedic literature there are indeed passages which may suggest that the Vedic Aryans actually knew of the never-setting polar sun (See Aitareya Brahmana III. 4.6)

That these people of Jutland (Sehlesurg peninsula) had migrated far and wide towards South-East is evidenced by the following passages:

"It is equally clear that the west Germans (Juts) had not lost their habit of long-distance migration. There is good evidence also to show that they had a keen eye to the qualities of arable soils and that these afforded sufficient ground for the movement of large groups made up of federated tribes, together with their flocks and herds." An Historical Geography of Europe, page 57.

"In moving forward towards the Mediterranean world where geographical conditions had long favoured precious cultural development, the German peoples followed the line of least resistance which had been frequently taken in earlier times by the Achaians, for example who moved into Greece and by the Celts who entered the Balkans, Italy and Spain." ..... An Historical Geography of Europe, page 59.

Jat is a tribe which is least homesick. The Sikh Jats are available in practically every country of the world. Because of their hard labour and adaptability to every climate and culture, they are doing very well everywhere. In India also thousands of examples are at hand where a Jat exchanged his small holdings of land with large undeveloped tract at a distance of hundreds of miles away from his village and by his toil, converted these into fertile lands and are reaping good harvest. So is the case with Danish people who are self-sufficient in food even with their hilly tracts.

"The north men conquerors gave their names to the new state; Rus had originally connoted the Baltic homelands of the varangians-Sweden and Denmark, but in the eleventh and


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twelth centuries the terms Rus of 'the Russian land' denoted the region around Kiev. It is significant that the varied stock of which Russia was composed-chiefly Slavs, finns and varangians-were not at this time called the Russian people." An Historical Geography of Europe, page 218. Hence existence of Juts in Russia, centuries before, is a good evidence that the people of Denmark migrated to long distances.

"The economic and political development of Slav Russia in the ninth century owned much to external stimuli exerted by the steppe horsemen to the south. The ninth century witnessed the maritime activities of the viking raiders who from basis in Scandinavia ravaged the coasts alike of the North Sea, the channel and the Baltic and sailed up the rivers of Britain, Gaul and Russia. The vikings pushed up into Russia by the Neva Nolkhov and Lovat rivers, thence by way of the Narva by short postages they reached the Dnieper itself. The Rusmen were quick to perceive the Trade possibilities of the Russian rivers, and to establish trade intercourse between Russia and both the Greeks of the Byzantine Empire and the Arabs. They settled in the rural trading centres of the Slavs along the Dnieper and its affluents, and these collecting centres of local produce grew quickly under the stimulus of river navigation, into mercantile towns." An Historical Geography of Europe, page 217.