Author: K R Qanungo
Publisher: LP Publications
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 226
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175362995
Description
The Jats are one of the most important races among the Indian population today. A critical study of the past history of such a race on the basis of all the available material cannot fail to be a subject of deep interest and instruction to all Indians. This book presents a comprehensive study on this race.
All known sources, printed and manuscript, Persian, Marathi, French and English, have been utilized here, and this History of the Jats represents a synthesis never attempted before. In his History of the Jats, Prof.Qanungo has not been content to be a closet student of written records. He has lived and worked among the Jat boys of his former college at Delhi, he has won their love and confidence and has visited their historic places and tribal gatherings and talked with old Jats whose memories are richly stored with the past. The information he has thus gathered by a personal quest spread over a wide field is concentrated in this book and gives it a unique value.
He has here sifted the evidence impartially and reviewed events and characters from the broad point of view of India as a whole, instead of narrowing his vision to a single tribe. This wider outlook, this philosophical detachment from the particular dynasty or community dealt with, is specially necessary in any history of India in the 18th century that deserves to live as a true history. For, the Jats were only one out of the many threads that made up the tangled web of North Indian history during the decline of the Mughal empire. The Jats, Ruhelas, Sikhs, Marathas, Rajputs, Oudh Nawabs, English Company, French adventurers, besides the Delhi emperors and their semi-independent nobles-all entered into the criss-cross of Indian politics during that one century which saw the rise, maturity and downfall of the Jats as the makers of Indian history; and; therefore, Professor Qanungo has done wisely in studying the contemporary history and interplay of all of these Powers. Here is a first-rate contribution to the critical study of the Fall of the Mughal Empire.
The Jats are fortunate to have Prof. Qanungo as their historian, as the Rajputs had Col. Tod, the Marathas Grant-Duff, and the Sikhs Cunningham. In this edition annotations based on recent findings describing and clarifying certain facts have been added to update this pioneering work. We honestly hope that this updated work will provide a clean mirror of the Jat history to the readers.
Contents
Editors Note
Foreword
Author’s Note
CHAPTER I
Origin and Early History
CHAPTER II
Jat History in Aurangzeb’s Reign
CHAPTER III
Expansion of the Jat Power
CHAPTER IV
Raja Suraj Mal, An Ally of Nawab Safdar Jang
CHAPTER V
Suraj Mal’s Struggle with the Marathas
CHAPTER VI
Ahmad Shah Durrani’s Campaign Against the Jats
CHAPTER VII
Suraj Mal’s Great Disappointment
CHAPTER VIII
Reign of Suraj Mal
CHAPTER IX
Legacy of Suraj Mal
CHAPTER X
Maharaja Sawai Jawahar Singh Bharatendra (1764-1768)
CHAPTER XI
Reign of Raja Jawahar Singh
CHAPTER XII
Civil War
CHAPTER XIII
Regency of Nawal Singh
CHAPTER XIV
Decline of the House of Bharatpur
CHAPTER XV
Reign of Raja Ranjit Singh Jat (1775-1805)
APPENDIX A
The Theory of the Indo-Scythian
Origin of the Jats
APPENDIX B
The Legend About
The Yadu Tribe
APPENDIX C
The Jat Risings During
Aurangzeb’sc Reign
APPENDIX D
Details of the Death of Suraj Mal
Bibliography
Index