10-31-2005, 06:59 PM
In the reign of Ala-ud-din Khalji the historian Barani writes: "The people were brought to such a state of obedience that one revenue officer would string together twelve khuts, muqaddams, and chaudharies together by the neck and enforce payment by blows." These Jat village headmen were so impoverished that they could not afford to buy horses or weapons; and their wives had to serve as maid-servants in the houses of Muslims to make a living.
This is your wonderful Jat resistance? A few dandas from the Turks and you grovel before them and pay revenue while your women have to become maid-servants?
The fact remains that Muslim rule was fairly consistent over Delhi, Agra, Punjab, Haryana...all areas inhabited by Jats. Coincidence? And the Turks had it fairly easy over these areas...only when they attempted to invade Rajputana, South India, the Himalyan region, and Orissa were they finally defeated. But even after that they continued to rule over the Jats in Delhi-Haryana until the Mughal invasion.
This shows how feeble the Jats were. Only when Aurangzeb was involved in the wars against the Marathas and Rajputs did the Jats get an opportunity to plunder and increase their resources. Even then it was the patronage of Jaipur rulers that allowed them to come up...but the Jats turned against their fellow Hindu benefactors and served in the armies of Mughal generals like Safdar Jung. They weren't true to their salt (namak-haram).
This is your wonderful Jat resistance? A few dandas from the Turks and you grovel before them and pay revenue while your women have to become maid-servants?
The fact remains that Muslim rule was fairly consistent over Delhi, Agra, Punjab, Haryana...all areas inhabited by Jats. Coincidence? And the Turks had it fairly easy over these areas...only when they attempted to invade Rajputana, South India, the Himalyan region, and Orissa were they finally defeated. But even after that they continued to rule over the Jats in Delhi-Haryana until the Mughal invasion.
This shows how feeble the Jats were. Only when Aurangzeb was involved in the wars against the Marathas and Rajputs did the Jats get an opportunity to plunder and increase their resources. Even then it was the patronage of Jaipur rulers that allowed them to come up...but the Jats turned against their fellow Hindu benefactors and served in the armies of Mughal generals like Safdar Jung. They weren't true to their salt (namak-haram).