History of Origin of Some Clans in India/Jat From Jutland/Jats and Religions
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
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Chapter 1: Jat From Jutland
Jats and Religions
'Men may come and men may go but I go on for ever' is a well known proverb. Accordingly a Jat is a Jat with Jat charactersitics, irrespective of the religion that had to change from time to time. The Jat tribe, being of Aryan stock, in the beginning professed Aryan faith. Later on Jats of many countries changed to Buddhist faith. The Budhist faith was overcome by Christianity in Europe and part of Asia. By influence of the kings, the Juts of Scandinevian countries changed to Christianity. Still after, the Jat people along with others became Mohemmedans which was spread by the dint of sword, particularly in India, Persia, Arabia, Turkey, Spain and Russia.
Most of the Sikhs are from Jat tribe and have carried the Sikh faith to England, U.S.A., Canada and many other countries.
In Persia, some carry Zoroastrian faith.
Authorities regarding Jats and their various faiths in various countries and periods are quoted hereinafter.
"But at present (in India and Pakistan) about one third of them (Jats) are Muslims, one fifth Sikhs, and the rest are Hindus.
In Afghanistan, Bilochistan, Persia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, they are Muslims and in
Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and U.S.S.R. they now profess Christianity.
Some of Jats in Persia also belong to Zoroastrian faith. "The Jat is a Jat after all, whether be a Hindu, Sikh or Muslim (Christian or a Zonastrian); he tenaciously clings to his tribal name as proud heritage, and with it the tradition of kinship." History of Jats by Qanungo, page 2.
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"Of the numerous Jat tribes of the Punjab, more than two-fifths that is one million three hundred and nine thousand have embarrassed the creed of Islam. They are most numerous in Gujrawala, in the Gujarat District of Rawalpindi, in Muzaffargarh, in Dera Ghazi Khan and in Sialkot". Hindu Tribe and Caste, Vol. H, page 70.
"A very numerous people in the Punjab, from whom (Jats) have proceeded the greatest proportion of adherants to the Sikh religion. But they have spread themselves far beyond the Punjab and are to be found widely scattered over the country between it and Bharatpur and Agra.' The Hindu Tribes and Castes, Vol. 1I, page 74.
"In short, whether as Yuti, Getes, Jits, Juts or Jats, this race far surpassed in numbers, three centuries ago, any other tribe or race in India; and it is a fact that they now constitute a vast majority of the peasantry of Western Rajwarra and perhaps of Northern India.
At what period these Jits established themselves in the Indian desert we are, as has been already observed, entirely ignorant, but even at the time of the Rathore invasion of these communities, their habits confirmed the tradition of their Scythic origin. They led chiefly a pastoral life, were guided, but not governed by the elders, and with the exception of adoration to the 'Universal mother' (Bhawani), incarnate in the person of a youthful Jatni, they were utter aliens to the Hindu theocracy. In fact, the doctrine of the great Islamite saint Shekh Fureed, appear to have overturned the pagan rites brought from the Jaxartis; and without any settled ideas on religion; the Jits of the desert jumbled all their tenets together. They considered themselves, in short, as a distinct class and as a Pooniah Jit informed me 'Their Wattan (वतन) was far beyond the Five rivers.' Even in the name of one of the six Communities (The Asiagh) on whose submission Beeka founded his new State, we have nearly the Asi, the chief of the four tribes from the Oxus and Jaxartes, who overturned the Greek kingdon of Bactria"- Annals of Rajasthan, Vol.II, pp. 138-139.
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"Similarity of religious manners affords stronger proofs of
original identity than language. Language is eternally
changing so are manners; but an exploded custom or rite
traced to its source and maintained in opposition to climate,
is a testimony not to be rejected." Annals of Rajasthan, Vol. I,
page 55.
"The Suiones or Suevi, the most powerful Getic nation of Scandinavia, was divided into many tribes, one of whom, the Su (Yuchi or Jit), made human sacrifices in their consecrated groves to Ertha (Ella) whom all worshipped and whose charriot was drawn by a Cow (The Gao or Cow, symbolic of Pritha or earth"-Annals of Rajasthan, Vol. I, page 55.
"If we can show the Germans to have been originally Scythae or Goths (Getes or Jits) a wide field of curiosity and inquiry is open to origin of Government, manners, etc., all the antiquities of Europe will assume a new appearance and instead of being traced to the bands of Germany, as Montesquien and the greatest writers have hitherto done, may be followed through long descriptions of the manners of the Scythians, etc., as given by Herodotus Scandinavia was occupied by the Scythae Five hundred years before Christ. These Scythians worshipped Mercury (Budha), Woden or Odian, and believed themselves his progeny. The Gothic mythology by parallel, might be shown to the Grecian, whose gods were the' progeny of Coelus and Terra (Budha and Ella). Dry-ads, satyrs, fairies, and all the Greek and Roman superstition, may be found in the Scandinavian creed. The Goths consulted the heart of victims and oracles, had sybils, had a Venus in Freya, and Parcal in the Valkyrie" Annuls and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Vol. I, page 51.
"The Suevi or Suiones erected the celebrated temples of Upsala in which they placed the statue or Thor, odens and Friya the triple divinity of the Scandinavian Asi, the Trimurti of the Solar and Lunar races."-Annuls of Rajasthan Vol. I, p.56.
"The Cimbri, one of the most celebrated of the six tribes of Yeutlned derive their name from their fame as warriors"- Annuls of Rajasthan, Vol. I, page 56.
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"Gajni or Gayni was another capital, whence the last prince, Silladitya (who was slain) and his family, were expelled by Parthian invaders in the sixth century."-Annuls of Rajas- tan, Vol. I, page 71.
"In the Eastern countries Bukhara is the cupola of Islam and in those regions she is like unto the city of peace (Baghdad). Since ancient time she has in every age been the place of assembly of the great savants of every religion. Now the derivation of Bukhara is from Bukhar (Viharo), which in the language of the Magians (correctly. the Buddhists) signifies centre of learning." (about 1220 A.D.) - History of Mongols, page 32.
When (Ghazan) in his early boyhood, was with his grand-father (Abaqa) so Hulagu(1265-1283), the latter being devoted to the teachings of the Bhikshus (Buddhist priests) and sharing their convictions, entrusted him to one or two highly respected Bhikshus, requesting them to teach him to the best of their abilities, and to guide him toward the acceptance of their doctrines be achieved such a perfection in them that he became an expert authority in this field....Out of a deep devotion to the (Buddhist) doctrine, he built in Khabushan in Khurasan soaring temples, and in this way followed all the prescriptions of this faith. All the Bhikshus and monks were highly astonished at these mortifications and exercises of self denial .... Early in November 1295, Ghazan, with all his emirs and in the presence of the great Sheikh Sadr-ad-din Ibrahim Hamani, professed the oneness of God and everybody went to Islam ..... History of Mongol, pages 144 to 146.
"It was in the 3rd century B.C. when the Emperor Ashoka became its great devotee, that Buddhism began to spread in the territories outside India. The Buddhist missionaries converted Ceylon and Burma to their faith. They then reached Mesopatamia and Syria in Asia Minor, Egypt in Africa and Macadonia in Europe. In the same period Buddhism spread in Central Asia." Evolution of Indian Culture, p. 148.
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