Muley Jats

The Muley Jat, or sometimes pronounced as Mola/Mula Jat, are a community of Jats found mainly in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, and the province of Punjab in Pakistan. They are predominantly Muslim.

The Muslim Muley Jats are converts from the Hindu Jat community of North India who converted to Islam during the Muslim rule, but not every Muslim convert is referred to as a Muley, the term being restricted to those Jats who inhabit western Uttar Pradesh and were once found in Haryana, and speak dialects of Urdu and Hindi such as Haryanvi and Khari boli. Those Muley Jat who inhabited the state of Haryana moved en masse to Pakistan, after the partition of India.

Origin

The term mulla refers to Muslim converts from the Jat tribe, who were historically found in Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. There is controversy as to the exact circumstances of their conversion to Islam, which are unclear. It is believed that many Jats were influenced by the Sufi traditions of Fariduddin Ganjshakar during the 11th and 12th century, but modern textbooks claim the conversions to have taken place in the 15th and 16th centuries, during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar.

Jat people

The Jat people (Hindi pronunciation: [dʒaːʈ]) (also spelled Jatt and Jaat) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region, Delhi, Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in late medieval times. Primarily of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh faiths, they now live mostly in the Indian States of Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

The Jat community saw radical social changes in the 17th century, the Hindu Jats took up arms against the Mughal Empire during the late 17th and early 18th century. The Hindu Jat kingdom reached its zenith under Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur (1707–1763). The Jat community of the Punjab region played an important role in the development of the martial Khalsa Panth of Sikhism; they are more commonly known as the Jat Sikhs. By the 20th century, the landowning Jats became an influential group in several parts of North India, including Haryana, Punjab,Western Uttar Pradesh,Rajasthan, and Delhi. Over the years, several Jats abandoned agriculture in favour of urban jobs, and used their dominant economic and political status to claim higher social status.

Jat, Sangli

Jath (Marathi:जत,kannada :ಜತ್ತ) is a town and taluka headquarters in Miraj subdivision of Sangli district in southern Maharashtra in India. It is often spelled as "Jath" according to South Indian lexical nomenclature. Jat is one of the largest talukas in Maharashtra state. Jat is sort of infamous for its famine-prone geographical conditions. It has been historically demographic part of Man Desh.

It was the former capital of Jath State, one of the non-salute Maratha princely states of British India, under the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency. It was a southern Maratha Jagir.

History

Some sources say, in ancient period, town was called Jayantinagar. Jat was capital of former Maratha Jagir ruled by Dafales. Most of the dynasty period was affiliated to Vijapur(Bijapur). For some period it was associated with Kolhapur as well as Satara Maratha Dynasties. Later Jat became a non-salute princely state until independence of India. Then it was part of Satara district. When Sangli district was formed, Jat became eastern tehsil of Sangli.

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