Jatah

Jatah used for Jats in Afghanistan.^[1]

Origin

History

Hukum Singh Panwar (Pauria) writes that The Saka fugitives were similarly known as "foreign Yueh Chih", which, as we have mentioned elsewhere, (Ch.IX) means Jat or Gut (g=j) in the archaic Chinese whereas the Mongols and the Turks remembered them as Jata or Jatah or Jit or Get. ^[2]

Bhim Singh Dahiya^[3] writes....A History of Persia throws light on the kingdoms of the Jats in the Central Asia in the fourteenth century A.D.

"The Governor of Mongolia or Jatah at this period was Tughluk Khan, who on seeing the state of anarchy into which Transoxiana had fallen, determined to annex it. He started on an expedition for this purpose in A.H. 761, (1360 A.D.) and marched on Kesh; Haji Barlas, deeming the odds too great offered no defence and fled to Khurasan (Persia) where he was after wards killed by brigands ... to save the situation, Tamerlane, decided to tender his submission to Tughluk Khan ... in the following years, the Khan of Jateh obtained possession of Samarkand and appointed his son Khoja alias Oghlan to the Governorship of Transoxiana with Tamerlane as his Counselor."

As mentioned above this dynasty was of the Oghlan clan of the Jats who were Buddhists at that time. It should be mentioned that Khan is not a Muslim title, it is a pre-Muslim Central Asian title adopted by many Buddhist kings. It is derived from Khakan/ Kagan/Khan. This title was being used in India, as late as the fourteenth century A.D. Kalhana's Rajatarangini mentions a king, Alakhan of Gujrat (Punjab), and Jonaraja's Chronicles show that at the time of its capture by Sultan Shihabuddin of Kashmir (1354-1373), the ruler of Udabhaṇḍa (modern Und, near Attock), was one Govinda Khan.¹⁹⁶ It is also well known to historians that in 1289 A.D. Jat king Arghun, son of Abaga had proposed to the Christians of Khurasan area, a joint attack on the Muslims who were a new rising power in the Oxus region. It was his successor Ghajan Khan who upon his accession to the throne in 1295 A.D., proclaimed himself a Muslim. He was the first Jat king who embraced Islam, and this marked the beginning of the process of conversion of Central Asia to that faith.

Notable persons

References

↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.179
↑ The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations/The identification of the Jats, p.300
↑ Bhim Singh Dahiya:Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study)/The Jats , p.67

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[1] An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, The Oriental University Institute, Woking, 1891, p.179

[2] The Jats:Their Origin, Antiquity and Migrations/The identification of the Jats, p.300

[3] Bhim Singh Dahiya:Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study)/The Jats , p.67

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