ABOUT THE BOOK

The Jats are one of the most important races among the Indian Population today, as during the Muslim period and their traditions go back to dim antiquity. The regions mainly occupied by them are Northern, Western and Central part of India. The race forms the backbone of agriculture community in the Punjab, Sindh, Rajasthan and the western portion of Gangetic Doab. The Jats had been a compact people having community of blood, community of Language and a common religion. But at present about one third of them are muslims, one fifth Sikhs and the rest are Hindus.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Prof. Kalika Ranjan Qanungo has not been content to be a closet student of written records. He has worked and lived among the Jat boys of his former college at Delhi, he has won their love and confidence and has visited their historic places and tribal gatherings and talked with old jats whose memories are richly stored with the past. The information he has thus gathered by a personal quest spread over a wide field is concentrated in this book and gives it a unique value.