Jat People In Islamic History
The Jat people and Meds have been the oldest occupants of Sindh. The first Persian account of the 11th-century Mujmat ut-Tawarikh (1026), originally an ancient work in Sanskrit, mentions Jats and Meds as the ancient tribe of Sind and calls them the descendants of Ham, the son of Noah. The Ghaznavid poet, Farrukhi calls the Jats (Zatt in Arabic) as the Indian race. These Arabic/Persian accounts find support from the early–5th-century inscription which documented the Indianized names of the Jat rulers, such as Raja Jeet, Salinder, Devangi, Sumbooka, Degali, Veera Narinder, Veera Handra and Salok Handra. Furthermore, the Mujmat ut-Tawarikh also mentions the Indianized name of one of their chiefs of the Jats in remote ancient time as Judrat. These textual references further strengthened the view of O'Brien, who opines that the names and traditions of certain Jat tribes seem to connect them more closely with Hindustan.
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