List of Jat dynasties and states

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This article is a list of Jat dynasties, states, and princely states. The Jats are an Indo-Aryan people spread out across Pakistan and Northern India, specifically in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Western UP, Sindh, and AJK. During the medieval and colonial eras, Jat clans established themselves throughout this area.

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Maharaja Surajmal, ruler of Bharatpur State at its zenith Surajmal jat.jpg
Maharaja Surajmal, ruler of Bharatpur State at its zenith
Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Lion of the Punjab.jpg
Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire

List of dynasties and states

Below is a list of Jat dynasties and states, along with the clan origin and how long they ruled.

Dynasties

States

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References

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  3. ↑ Mahotsav, Amrit. "Battle of Dholpur in 1803". amritmahotsav.nic.in Government of India. "At the same time, the British also helped the Jats led by Rana Kirat Singh, to win the Gohad region from the Scindias. As part of an arrangement made by the Company, Rana Kirat Singh was given Dholpur and the former took over Gohad. Thus, the Dholpur state was formed and Rana Kirat Singh was declared its ruler in 1805."
  4. ↑ Khan, Iqbal Ghani (2002). "Technology and the Question of Elite Intervention in Eighteenth-Century North India". In Barnett, Richard B. (ed.). Rethinking Early Modern India. Manohar Publishers & Distributors. p. 271. ISBN   978-81-7304-308-6. "Thus we witness the Ruhelas accepting an exceptionally talented non-Afghan, an adopted Jat boy, as their nawab, purely on the basis of his military leadership; ..."
  5. ↑ Irvine, W. (1971). Later Mughal. Atlantic Publishers & Distri. p. 118. Retrieved 30 July 2022. Once Daud was sent against the village of Bankauli, in pargana Chaumahla, with which his employer was at feud. Along with the plunder taken on this occasion Daud obtained possession of a Jat boy seven or eight years of age, whom he caused to be circumcised and then adopted under the name of Ali Muhammad Khan.
  6. ↑ Gupta, Hari Ram (1999) [1980]. History of the Sikhs. Vol. III: Sikh Domination of the Mughal Empire (1764–1803) (2nd rev. ed.). Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 11. ISBN   978-81-215-0213-9. OCLC   165428303. "The real founder of the Rohilla power was Ali Muhammad, from whom sprang the present line of the Nawabs of Rampur. Originally a Hindu Jat, who was taken prisoner when a young boy by Daud in one of his plundering expeditions, at village Bankauli in the parganah of Chaumahla, and was converted to Islam and adopted by him."
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  10. ↑ Qanungo, Kalika Ranjan; Kānūnago, Kālikā Rañjana (1960). Studies in Rajput History. S. Chand. p. 60. whereas the Jats lived in the Jangal-desh (a portion of ancient Kuru-Jangal region), which covers Bikanir and some portion of the Jodhpur State.
  11. ↑ Sharma, Dasharatha (1966). Rajasthan Through the Ages: From the earliest times to 1316 A.D. Bikaner: Rajasthan State Archives. pp. 287–288. There is good reason to believe that parts of the present north-eastern and north-western Rajasthan were inhabited by Jat clans ruled by their own chiefs and largely governed by their own customary law.
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  13. ↑ Pande, Ram (9 June 1970). "Bharatpur Upto 1826: A Social and Political History of the Jats". Rama Publishing House – via Google Books.
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  21. ↑ Gupta, Hari Ram (2001). History of the Sikhs: The Sikh commonwealth or Rise and fall of Sikh misls (illustrated ed.). Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 580. ISBN   978-8-121-5-01651 . Retrieved 8 July 2021.
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  26. ↑ Gill, Surjit S. (2003). Sikhs in Sabah and Labuan: A Historical Perspective. Labuan Sikh Society. p. 138. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
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  28. ↑ Low, D. A. (1991). Political Inheritance of Pakistan (illustrated ed.). Springer. p. 35. ISBN   9781349115563. "Other Sidhu Jat families established the state of Faridkot, the jagirs of Kaithal and Arnauli, and a host of lesser fiefs."
  29. ↑ Gill, Surjit S. (2003). Sikhs in Sabah and Labuan: A Historical Perspective. Labuan Sikh Society.
  30. ↑ Arora, A. C. (1984). "Ranjit Singh's Relations with the Jind State". In Singh, Fauja; Arora, A. C. (eds.). Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Politics, Society, and Economy. Punjabi University. p. 86. ISBN   978-81-7380-772-5. OCLC 557676461. "Even before the birth of Ranjit Singh, cordial relations had been established between the Sukarchakia Misal and the Phulkian House of Jind. ... the two Sikh Jat chiefships had cultivated intimate relationship with each other by means of a matrimonial alliance. Maha Singh, the son of the founder of Sukarchakia Misal, Charat Singh, was married to Raj Kaur, the daughter of the founder of the Jind State, Gajpat Singh. The marriage was celebrated in 1774 at Badrukhan, then capital of Jind1, with pomp and grandeur worthy of the two chiefships. ... Ranjit Singh was the offspring of this wedlock."

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