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PANJAB CASTES 

SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. 

Being a reprint of the chapter on 
The Races, Castes and Tribes of 
the People in the Report on the 
Census of the Panjab published 
in ''' 1883 ''' by the late Sir Denzil 
Ibbetson, KCSI 

Lahore : 

Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 

1916. 
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=Distribution=

Beyond the Panjab, Jats are chiefly found
in Sindh where they form the mass of the population in Bikaner, Jaisalmer,
and Marwar, where they probably equal in numbers all the Rajput races put
together; and along the upper valleys of the Ganges and Jamna from Bareli,
Farrukhabad; and Grwalior upwards. Within the Province their distribution
is shown in Abstract No. 71 on page 219.'They are especially numerous in
the central Sikh districts and States, in the south-eastern districts, and in the
Derajat. Under and among the hills and in the Rawalpindi division Rajputs
take their place, while on the frontier both upper and lower, they are almost
wholly conhned to the cis-Indus tracts and the immediate Indus riverain on
both sides of the stream. The Jats of the Indus are probably still in the
country which they have occupied ever since their first entry into India,
though they have been driven back from the foot of the SulcmAns on to the
river by the advance of the Pathan and the Biloch. The Jats of the Western
Plains have almost without exception come up the river valleys from Sindh
or Western Rajputana. The Jats of the western and central sub-montane
have also in part come by the same route ; but some of them retain a tradi
tional connection with Ghazni, which perhaps refers to the ancient Gajnipur,
the site of the modern Rawalpindi, while many of them trace their origin
from the Jammu Hills.

The Jats of the Central and Eastern Panjab have also in many cases
come up the Satluj valley ; but many of them have moved from Bikaner
straight into the Alalwa, while the great central plains of the Malwa itself
are probably the original home of many of the Jal. tribes of the Sikh tract.
The Jats of the south-eastern districts and the Jamna zone have for the most
part worked up the Jamna valley from the direction of Bhartpur, with which
some of them still retain . traditional connection; though some few have
moved in eastwards from Bikaner and the Malwa. The Bhartpur Jats are
themselves said to be immigrants who left the banks of the Indus in the time
of Aurangzeb. Whether the Jats of the great plains are really as late immi
grants as they represent, or whether their story is merely founded upon a wish
to show recent connection with the country of the Rajputs, I cannot say. The
whole question is one on which we are exceedingly ignorant, and which would
richly repay detailed investigation.