Tempo:
HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
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APP. I
Emperor Humayun's chronicler talks of the followers brethren) of that chief as being Jats. (Memoirs oj The editors of the Journal of the Geographical Society (xiv. 207 n.) derive Jat from the Sanskrit Jyesfha, old, ancient, and so make the term equivalent to aborigines; but this etymology perhaps too hastily sets aside the sufficiently established facts of Getae and Yuechi emigrations, and the circumstance of Taimur's warfare with Jettehs in Central Asia. Some of the most eminent of the Jat subdivisions in the Punjab are named Sindhu, Chineh, Varaitch, Chattheh, Sidhu, Kurrial, Gondul, &c. For some notices of the Jats of the Indus by early Muhammadan writers (about a.d. 977 and 1100) see Sir H. M. Elliot, Historians of India, pp. 69 and 270. (i.e.
Humayun, p. 45).
APPENDIX
II
PROPORTIONS OF RACES AND FAITHS POPULATION OF INDIA Out of 1,030 villages lying here and there between the Jumna and Sutlej, and which were under Britisn management in 1844, there were found to be forty-one different tribes of agriculturists, in proportions as follows, after adding up fractions where any race composed a portion only of the whole community of any one village. Villages Jats
Rajputs Gujars Saiyids
Shaikhs Pathans
Mughals Brahmans Kshattriyas Rains (or Arains)
Kambos MaUs Rors Dogras (Muhammadans claiming Kshattriya origin) Kalals
443 194 109 17 25 8 5 28
6 47 19 12 33
28 5
300
APP. I
Emperor Humayun's chronicler talks of the followers brethren) of that chief as being Jats. (Memoirs oj The editors of the Journal of the Geographical Society (xiv. 207 n.) derive Jat from the Sanskrit Jyesfha, old, ancient, and so make the term equivalent to aborigines; but this etymology perhaps too hastily sets aside the sufficiently established facts of Getae and Yuechi emigrations, and the circumstance of Taimur's warfare with Jettehs in Central Asia. Some of the most eminent of the Jat subdivisions in the Punjab are named Sindhu, Chineh, Varaitch, Chattheh, Sidhu, Kurrial, Gondul, &c. For some notices of the Jats of the Indus by early Muhammadan writers (about a.d. 977 and 1100) see Sir H. M. Elliot, Historians of India, pp. 69 and 270. (i.e.
Humayun, p. 45).
APPENDIX
II
PROPORTIONS OF RACES AND FAITHS POPULATION OF INDIA Out of 1,030 villages lying here and there between the Jumna and Sutlej, and which were under Britisn management in 1844, there were found to be forty-one different tribes of agriculturists, in proportions as follows, after adding up fractions where any race composed a portion only of the whole community of any one village. Villages Jats
Rajputs Gujars Saiyids
Shaikhs Pathans
Mughals Brahmans Kshattriyas Rains (or Arains)
Kambos MaUs Rors Dogras (Muhammadans claiming Kshattriya origin) Kalals
443 194 109 17 25 8 5 28
6 47 19 12 33
28 5
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