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The tale of Jats, also ‘Jatts’ or ‘Jaats’, in India is about 500 years old. Leading nomadic lives that revolved around their livestock, the Jats belonged to diverse geographies, from the mountains of Eastern Europe and Central Asia to the sea-adjacent plain fields. Many who settled in Sindh started moving northwards between the 17th and 18th centuries. Mujmal-ut-Tawarikh, an Arabic account of the Sindh region, attributes the origin of Jats to the son of Noah, Ham, which in turn attributes it to the now-known scientific terms ‘Aryans’ and ‘Scythians’. The same origin is conveyed to the Rajput clans inhabiting the...