^Siแน gh, Bhagat (2002). "BIDHฤช CHAND, BHฤฤช (d. 1640)". In Singh, Harbans (ed.). The Encyclopaedia of Sikhism. Vol. I (4th ed.). Punjabi University. pp. 367โ368. ISBN978-81-7380-100-6. OCLC808441524. BIDHฤช CHAND, BHฤฤช (d. 1640), warrior as well as religious preacher of the time of Gurลซ Hargobind, was a Chhฤซnฤ Jaแนญแนญ of the village of Sลซrsiแน gh, 34 km south of Amritsar ...
^Murphy, Anne (2003). "TฤJAJI". In Mills, Margaret A.; Diamond, Sarah; Claus, Peter J. (eds.). South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 596. ISBN978-0-415-93919-5. Tฤjaji was a Jฤt of Karnala near Nagaur, in Marwar
^McLeod, W. H.; Fenech, Louis E. (2014). Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 243. ISBN978-1-4422-3600-4. PHULA SINGH (c. 1761โ1823). ... He was a Jat, son of an attendant at Akal Takhat, and upon joining the Akalis became their most famous leader.
^Asher, Catherine B.; Talbot, Cynthia (2007) [2006]. India Before Europe. Cambridge University Press. p. 272. ISBN978-0-521-80904-7. The more successful among them even rose to the status of minor kings, as we saw with the Jat ruler Badan Singh of Bharatpur.
^Thornton, S. A. (2008). "BHAGO, MAI". In Smith, Bonnie G. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 226. ISBN978-0-19-514890-9. BHAGO, MAI (fl. 1699โ1708), ... Hers was a family of the Dhillon clan of the jat ...
^Gayer, Laurent (2012). "Des ยซ Princesses ยป chez les ยซ Lions ยป. Parcours de vie de recrues fรฉminines dans la Guรฉrilla Sikhe (1984-1995)". In Jaffrelot, Christophe; Mohammad-Arif, Aminah (eds.). Politique et religions en Asie du Sud: le sรฉcularisme dans tous ses รฉtats? (in French). รditions de lโรcole des hautes รฉtudes en sciences sociales. p. 287. doi:10.4000/books.editionsehess.22356. ISBN978-2-7132-2323-5. Mai Bhago, une Jat du clan Dhillon, s'illustra au dรฉbut du XVIIIe siรจcle en combattant les armรฉes mogholes pour le compte de Gourou Gobind Singh. [Mai Bhago, a Jat of the Dhillon clan, distinguished herself at the beginning of the 18th century by fighting the Mughal armies on behalf of Guru Gobind Singh.]
^Husain, S.M. Azizuddin (2014). "1857 as Reflected in Persian and Urdu Documents". In Bates, Crispin (ed.). Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857. Vol. VI: Perception, Narration and Reinvention: The Pedagogy and Historiography of the Indian Uprising. SAGE Publications. p. 187. ISBN978-81-321-1354-6. People were divided: Jat Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabhgarh was supporting Bahadur Shah, and the Jats of Ghaziabad were supporting the British.
^Singh, Kuldip (4 August 1995). "Obituary: The Maharaja of Nabha". The Independent. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Pratap Singh Malvendra Bahadur was born a Jat Sikh of the Sidhu clan, the son of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh, in 1919.
^McLeod, W. H. (2004). Sikhs and Sikhism. Oxford University Press. p. 18. ISBN978-0-19-566892-6. It is obvious that their leadership was largely in Jaแนญ hands and eventually it was a Jaแนญ misldฤr, Raรฑjฤซt Siแน gh, who secured total ascendancy.
^Roy, Kaushik (2015). "British-India and Afghanistan: 1707โ1842". In Roy, Kaushik; Lorge, Peter (eds.). Chinese and Indian Warfare โ From the Classical Age to 1870. Routledge. p. 97. ISBN978-0-415-50244-3. The Jat Raja Suraj Mal advised the Marathas to conduct guerrilla warfare against Ahmad Shah for several reasons.
^Banerjee, Himadri (2017). "Remembering Komagata Maru: its many journeys, 1914โ2014". In Roy, Anjali Gera; Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar (eds.). Diasporas and Transnationalisms: The Journey of the Komagata Maru. Routledge. p. 214. ISBN978-1-138-70190-8. The news of the voyage to Vancouver under the leadership Gurdit Singh (1859โ1954), a Jat Sikh from majha, reached the immigrant Sikhs in Howrah and Kolkata.
^Singh, Khushwant (2004). A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839โ2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 191. ISBN978-0-19-567309-8. Teja Singh Swatantra (b.1901), a Jat Sikh of village Aluna (Gurdaspur district), was active in the Akali and Congress movements.
^"Prestige of 3 Ministers at stake in UP". The Pioneer. 11 April 2019. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Ajit Singh, a Jat by caste, is the alliance candidate from Muzaffarnagar and will be up against BJP MP Sanjeev Baliyan, who is a prominent Jat leader.
^Bhagwant Mann (8 January 2019). Quota Bill Is An Election Stunt: Bhagwant Mann, AAP (in Hindi). ABP News. Comment occurs between 2:27 and 2:31 – via YouTube. เคฎเฅเค เคเคเฅเค เคธเคฟเค เคฌเคฟเคฐเคพเคฆเคฐเฅ เคธเฅ เคเคคเคพ เคนเฅเค เคเคฟเคธเคเฅ เคชเคเคเคพเคฌ เคฎเฅเค เคเคพเค เคเคนเคคเฅ เคนเฅเคเฅค [I come from Jatt Sikh community which is called Jat in Punjab.]
^Kumar, Ashok (3 November 2013). "The twists and turns of Jat politics". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. In 1984, the Congress chose Jat leader Choudhary Bharat Singh as its Lok Sabha candidate for Outer Delhi ...
^Nangia, Bimla (1985). Singh, Harnam (ed.). "Eighth Lok Sabha Election in Delhi: An Analysis". The Indian Political Science Review. XIX (1 & 2). University of Delhi: 169. ISSN0019-6126. OCLC1586084. Choudhary Bharat Singh, Congress (I) nominee and Tarif Singh of Dalit Mazdoor Kisan Party, both Jats of Outer Delhi with rural background contested the Lok Sabha election for the first time from this constituency.
^Shrader, Lawrence L. (2015) [1968]. "Rajasthan". In Weiner, Myron (ed.). State Politics in India. Princeton University Press. p. 380. ISBN978-1-4008-7914-4. Two Jat deputy ministers, Kamla Beniwal (Jaipur district) and Daulat Ram Saran (Churu district) announced their resignations at the same time.
^Sukumar Muralidharan (April 2001). "The Jat patriarch". Frontline. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
^Narang, Amarjit Singh (2014). "The Shiromani Akali Dal". In Singh, Pashaura; Fenech, Louis E. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies. Oxford University Press. p. 342. ISBN978-0-19-969930-8. Soon the leadership of Master Tara Singh (a non-Jat urban Sikh) was replaced by that of Sant Fateh Singh, a rural Jat.
^Singh, Khushwant (2004). A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839โ2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 283. ISBN978-0-19-567309-8. Gyan Singh Rarewala (b.1901), a Cheema Jat of village Rara in Patiala state, was chief minister of PEPSU; ...
^ abSingh, Satindra. "Akali Bid For Tie-Up With Cong (I) Fails". The Tribune. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020. Mr. Zail Singh, it may be noted, is not averse to a Congress (I)-Akali electoral alliance as it would help him ward off the joint attack of three factions led by Mr. Darbara Singh, Mr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon, Mr Harcharan Singh Brar โ all Jats โ against his supremacy in the Punjab Congress (I).
^ abSingh, Dalip (1981). Dynamics of Punjab Politics. Macmillan. p. 269. ISBN9780836408102. OCLC610329985. The present Congress Chief Minister (Darbara Singh) and the earlier Chief Ministers (Gurnam Singh, Lachhman Singh Gill and Parkash Singh Badal) have come from the Jat-Sikh community.
^George, Varghese K.; Kaushal, Pradeep (19 January 2008). "Autumn of the Patriarchs". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022. In 1989, Devi Lal invited Surjeet, a fellow Jat, to contest ...
^Sisson, J. Richard (November 1966). "Institutionalization and Style in Rajasthan politics". Asian Survey. 6 (11): 605โ613. doi:10.2307/2642283. JSTOR2642283.
^Singh, Khushwant (2004). A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839โ2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 339. ISBN978-0-19-567309-8. Jagdev Singh, born 1927, is a Gill Jat from the village of Talwandi (District Ludhiana). ... Harchand Singh (1934โ85) was a Diya Jat from the village of Gideryani (District Sangrur).
^ abSharma, Gauri (2004). Sabbarwal, Sherry (ed.). "Mughal Wazirs as Harbingers of A Socio-Cultural and Literary Movement". Research Journal Social Sciences. 12 (1). Panjab University: 147. ISSN0251-348X. In fact, barring Giani Zail Singh, all the other chief ministers (Justice Gurnam Singh, Lachaman Singh Gill, Prakash Singh Badal, Surjit Singh Barnala, Darbara Singh, Beant Singh, H. S. Brar, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, and Capt. Amrinder Singh) belonged to the Jat Sikh community.
^Shrader, Lawrence L. (2015) [1968]. "Rajasthan". In Weiner, Myron (ed.). State Politics in India. Princeton University Press. p. 349. ISBN978-1-4008-7914-4. Of the four other ministers who served in both periods, two were the Jat leadersโKumbharam Arya and Nathu Ram Mirdhaโand the third was ...
^Niazi, M. A. (2 May 2016). "Terms of Reference". The Nation. ProQuest1785752136. Of course, a lot of Jats are politicians. Ch Shujat Hussain has been PM, and Ch Pervez Elahi Deputy PM. Both are Jats. As is former President Rafiq Tarar. And Ashir Azeem might take heart from the DG ISPR, Lt Gen Asim Bajwa, being one too.
^Jones, Philip E. (2003). The Pakistan People's Party: Rise to Power. Oxford University Press. p. 345. ISBN978-0-19-579966-8. In the contest, Nawabzada Asghar Ali (MLA, 1943-1956; MWPA, 1965), the traditional head of the Gujjar Tribes, and QML candidate, was defeated by Chaudhury Zahur Illahi of the CML. The latter is a Waraich Jat by social background and a prominent industrialist by occupation.
^"His family (poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz family)". Dawn (newspaper). 11 February 2011. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2020. Here lived a small land-owning class of Jat farmers, by caste known as Tataley. They addressed themselves as Chaudhry, from which we know that the given name of the poet was Chaudhry Faiz Ahmed.
^ abFranda, Marcus (1983). "Gulzar Singh Sandhu". In Franda, Marcus (ed.). Punjabis, War and Women: The Short Stories of Gulzar Singh Sandhu. Heritage Publishers. p. 25. ISBN978-0-8364-0936-9. Virk's background resembles that of Sandhu and Sekhon to a remarkable degree. ... All three are Jat Sikhs who went on to get Master's degrees in English and secure government-dependent jobs (Sandhu and Virk have worked in agriculture and communications for the government almost all of their lives, Sekhon was a Principal in government aided colleges).
^Sharma, Sarika (20 October 2015). "Coming next from Nagra's pen: Verses around radio". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. "... I am from a jat caste and have explored caste issues as they are played out in Britain and how we view India. ..." Nagra says.
^ abcVirk, Kulwant Singh (11 April 1976). Singh, Khushwant (ed.). "Peasant Communities of Punjab". The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 97, no. 15. p. 19. The Jats of Punjab have produced many men of renown. One of the most illustrious was Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780โ1839). ... In the Services are former Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh and Lt Gen Harbakhsh Singh who played a major role in the 1965 War. Nirmaljit Singh won the first Param Vir Chakra for the IAF.
^Abhyankar, M. G. (1961). The Rajputana Rifles: A History of the Regiment, 1775โ1947. Orient Longmans. p. 354. OCLC602513424. ... Chhelu Ram who had been mortally wounded at the crisis of the fighting. ... For unparalleled courage and leadership, this Jat from Dhenod Village, Bhiwani, Hissar District earned for his Battalion the second 'Victoria Cross' of the war.
^Praval, K. C. (1987). Indian Army After Independence (1st ed.). Lancer International. p. 513. ISBN978-81-7062-014-3. A Jat from the Sisana village in Rohtak district, Hoshiar Singh was in command of the left forward company of his battalion.
^Marwah, Ved (2009). "India's counterinsurgency campaign in Punjab". In Ganguly, Sumit; Fidler, David P. (eds.). India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons learned. Routledge. p. 101. doi:10.4324/9780203879207. ISBN978-0-415-49103-7. ... these circumstances changed when command was given to J. F. Ribeiro and K. P. S. Gill, both known for their courage and leadership. The fact that Gill was a Jat Sikh was an added advantage because the Jat Sikhs were leading the insurgency in Punjab.
^Singh, Khushwant (2004). A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839โ2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 243. ISBN978-0-19-567309-8. Mohan Singh (b.1909) of village Ugoke (Sialkot district), a Jat of Ghuman sub-caste, joined the army in 1927 as a common sepoy.
^Balakrishnan, S. (24 December 1989). Nandy, Pritish (ed.). "Free at Last!". The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 110. p. 8. Even as the troops led by Lt Gen Ranjit Singh Dyal, a Jat Sikh officer, stormed the temple complex where Bhindranwale and Amrik Singh were holed up, ...
^Singh, Khushwant (2004). A History of the Sikhs. Vol. II: 1839โ2004 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN978-0-19-567309-8. Shahbeg Singh, a Jat Sikh, had a distinguished career in the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971 when he trained the Mukti Bahini guerilias.
^Selvaraj, Jonathan (14 December 2015). "Who wants to fight this girl?". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 15 December 2015. Guru Chandgi Ram and Mahavir Phogat had the advantage of being in positions of power. ... And they were both Jats, who had a say in the khap.
^Sharma, Devesh (24 July 2020). "Movie Review: Saand Ki Aankh". Filmfare. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. The lives of 'revolver dadis' Chandro Tomar and Prakashi Tomar is proof enough of that. ... Coming from a patriarchal jat family, their accomplishments paved the way for women in and around Baghpat to take up the sport.
^Rataul, Dharmendra (4 May 2009). "With development as poll pitch, he pulls crowds with Sidhuisms". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. "No if, no but, it's only Jat" โ this dialogue from Jo Bole So Nihal comes in handy for BJP's sitting MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, who hastens to add "and vote for this Jat" while campaigning in his constituency.
^Tamta, Prashant (6 August 2024). "Who is Arshad Nadeem, the main challenger of Neeraj Chopra in Paris Olympics?". DNA. Retrieved 16 August 2024. Born into a Punjabi Jat family in Pakistan's Punjab, he is the third-oldest among eight siblings. Nadeem made his debut at the Olympics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were held in 2021.
^Kumar, Anuj (8 January 2015). "From ugly to lovely". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. "I am a Jat boy from Haryana ... ," says Darshan, ...
^Dedhia, Sonil (10 August 2007). "Sushant Singh's ego problem". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 13 August 2020. Being a Jat, I have my ego.
^"Dr. Abdus Salam: The Coffee House of Lahore By K K Aziz". Sangat Review. Salam was the son of Chaudhri Muhammad Husain, a schoolteacher of Jhang and Hajirah who belonged to Faizullah Chak near Batala Muhammad Husain was a jat and Hajirah a Kakkezai.
^Singh, Satendra (2017). "Perseverance Pays". In Halder, Santoshi; Assaf, Lori Czop (eds.). Inclusion, Disability and Culture: An Ethnographic Perspective Traversing Abilities and Challenges. Springer. p. 44. ISBN978-3-319-55223-1. I was a Jaat! I realized for the first time that caste politics played a very important role in the political scenario.