80 The Ethnology of India. 
To the north, in the north-eastern Punjab and Cis-Sutlej districts, 
as we get near the hills, I think there are evident indications that the 
Jat population has been advancing on what has once been a proper 
Rajpoot country, after having perhaps been, before thag, a Bramin 
country. It is not clear whether the Bhattees of Bhatteana were 
originally Rajpoots or really are Yuti or Jats. But from Bhatteana 
northwards, Rajpoot villages are scattered about in considerable 
numbers among the Jats, and there are traces ‘of more extensive 
Rajpoot possessions. The Rajpoots seem to be here undergoing gradual 
submersion. But in the extreme north of the Baree and adjoining 
Doabs of the Punjab (the Baree is that Doab in which Lahore and 
Umritsir are situated) there is still a strip immediately under the 
hills, which may be classed with the adjoining hill country as still 
mainly Rajpoot. To the west, advancing through Rajpootana, we 
come to the Jats of Bhurtpore and Dholpore, famous in history. 
Gwalior was a Jat fortress belonging, I think, to the Dholpore Chief. 
They do not go much further south in this direction. From this 
_ point they may be said to occupy the banks of the Jumna all the way 
north to the hills. The Dehli territory is principally a Jat country, and 
from Agra upwards the flood of that race has passed the river in con- 
siderable numbers, and forms a large part of the population of the 
Upper Doab in the districts of Allighur, Meerut, and Mozuffernugger. 
They are just known over the Ganges in the Moradabad district, but 
they cannot be said to have crossed that river in any numbers. 
To define then the Jat country ; take as a basis the country on both 
sides of the Indus from Lat. 26° or 27° up to the Salt Range; from 
the extremities of this base draw two lines nearly at right angles to 
the river and inclining south, so as to reach Lat. 23° or 24° in Malwa, 
and Lat. 80° on the Jumna, thus including Upper Scinde, Marwar, : 
and part of Malwa on one side, and Lahore, Umritsir, and Umballa on 
the other; then connect the two eastern points by a line which shall 
include Dholpore, Agra, Allighur, and Meerut. Within all that 
ambit the Jat race ethnologically predominates, excepting only the 
hills of Mewar and the neighbourhood, still held by Aboriginal tribes. 
The Jats of Beloochistan are described, from an Affghan or Candahar 
point of view, as fine athletic men with handsome features, but rather 
dark. 
