Jats of Balochistan

Jats of Balochistan
Regions with significant populations
	Balochistan, Sindh
Languages
	Balochi, Sindhi, Saraiki
Religion
	Islam
Related ethnic groups
	• Baloch people

The Jats of Balochistan. are a tribes of native people found in Balochistan province of Pakistan.[1][2] They are 10% of the total population of Balochistan. Jat are the fourth largest tribe of Balochistan. They are by profession camel herders.[3] They were known notoriously all over Makran for their evil-living nature.[4] They are gypsies and always are in the tents searching for grazing for their camels.

The main tribes which belong to the Jat sect of native people are Jamali, Rahmani, Birahmani, Babbar, Sanjrani, Raisani, Waswani, Lanjwani, Hoth, Katohar, Jiskani, Gadhi, Gopang, Khushk, Kolachi, Zardari.[5]

History

By the time of Muhammad bin Qasim's conquest of Sind in the eighth century, Arab writers described agglomerations of Jats and Meds in the arid, the wet, and the mountainous regions of the conquered land of Sindh[6] and Makran region of today's pakistani province of balochistan, which at that time was part of Sindh. The Arab referred jats as zutts or az zutts (Arabic: الزُّطِّ). The jats were present in makran and Lasbela long before the migration of balochs from Kerman, Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan provinces of Iran. The Arab rulers though professing a theologically egalitarian religion, maintained the position of Jats and the discriminatory practices against them that had been put in place in the long period of Hindu rule in Sind. Between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

References

Baluchistan (Pakistan) (1979). Balochistan Through the Ages: Tribes (reprint ed.). Nisa Traders : sole distributors Gosha-e-Adab.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1898). William Henry Wilkins (ed.). The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam. H. S. Stone. p. 215.
Westphal-Hellbusch, Sigrid; Westphal, Heinz (1986). The Jat of Pakistan. Lok Virsa.
Commissioner, India Census (1913). Census of India, 1911 ... Printed at the Government central Press.
ʻAlī, Anṡārī ʻAlī Sher (1901). A Short Sketch, Historical and Traditional, of the Musalman Races Found in Sind, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, Their Genealogical Sub-divisions and Septs, Together with an Ethnological and Ethnographical Account. Printed at the Commissioner's Press.
Mayaram, Shail (2003). Against history, against state : counterperspectives from the margins. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12730-8. OCLC 52203150.

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[1] Baluchistan (Pakistan) (1979). Balochistan Through the Ages: Tribes (reprint ed.). Nisa Traders : sole distributors Gosha-e-Adab.

[2] Sir Richard Francis Burton (1898). William Henry Wilkins (ed.). The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam. H. S. Stone. p. 215.

[3] Westphal-Hellbusch, Sigrid; Westphal, Heinz (1986). The Jat of Pakistan. Lok Virsa.

[4] Commissioner, India Census (1913). Census of India, 1911 ... Printed at the Government central Press.

[5] ʻAlī, Anṡārī ʻAlī Sher (1901). A Short Sketch, Historical and Traditional, of the Musalman Races Found in Sind, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, Their Genealogical Sub-divisions and Septs, Together with an Ethnological and Ethnographical Account. Printed at the Commissioner's Press.

[6] Mayaram, Shail (2003). Against history, against state : counterperspectives from the margins. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12730-8. OCLC 52203150.