The Jat people, also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural caste in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus River Valley of Sindh and Makran, many Jats
Early 19th century painting of a Jat farmer.
Jat Sikh of the "Sindhoo" clan, Lahore, 1872
The Hindu Jat Maharaja of Bharatpur, Balwant Singh
The Bahlikas were the inhabitants of a location called Bahlika, mentioned in the Atharvaveda, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas, Vartikka of Katyayana, Brhatsamhita, Amarkosha, and other ancient inscript
Jats
…Indo-Aryan term Jat (and its female form, Jatni) descends from the Prakrit form Jaṭṭa, itself from Jarta or Jartika, the name of an ancient non-Vedic Bahlika tribe. The first mention of Jats are in an inscription found in modern Gilgit-Baltistan, dated to the 6th or 7th century, which records some Jats as…
Bahlika Kingdom alongside other locations of kingdoms and republics mentioned in the Indian epics or Bharata Khanda.