Jat (Noun)
Meaning
A member of an Indo-European people widely scattered throughout the northwest of the Indian subcontinent and consisting of Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The jat community has been known for their agricultural skills and bravery in battles throughout history.
- Many Indians still mistaken that jat and other communities are castes when actuality many Indians have intermarried and converted even among original jats.
- Despite their cultural differences, jats have been known to coexist peacefully with other communities in rural areas of India.
- The jat people traditionally inhabited the lands surrounding the city of Delhi and were known for their skills in cavalry warfare.
- Having faced discriminatory practices by British colonial rulers the Indian jat peasant struggled to put up revolt against them in the early twentieth century in the Shamji Lalora jat Peasant Movement