Culture and Society
The life and culture of Jats is full of diversity and approaches most closely to that ascribed to the traditional Central Asian colonists of South Asia. Jat people became tillers of soil. They are fiercely independent in character and value their self respect more than anything, which is why they offered heavy resistance against any foreign force that treated them unjustly. In the government of their villages, they appear much more democratic. They have less reverence for hereditary right and a preference for elected headmen.
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