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 that, a Braniin 

 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 Granges 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 Malwaj 

 and Lat. 30° 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 Mevvar and the neighbourhood, still held by Aboriginal tribes. 



The Jats of Beloochistan are described, from an Aft'ghan or Candaliar 

 point of view, as fine athletic men with handsome features, but rather 

 dark. 



