The Jat people (Hindi pronunciation: [dʒaːʈ]) are a community of traditionally non-elite tillers and herders in Northern India and Pakistan. Of Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu faiths, they are now found mostly in the the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Punjab.
Traditionally involved in peasantry, the Jats took up arms against the Mughal Empire during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.The community played an important role in the development of the martial Khalsa panthan of Sikhism.The Hindu Jat kingdom reached its zenith under Suraj Mal ofBharatpur (1707–1763). By the 20th century, the landowning Jats became an influential group in several parts of North India, including Punjab, Western Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana 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. | 
