05-14-2006, 11:16 PM
It's not a question of whether this or that person was a jat or was not a jat. rather it is a question about the over arching cultural gradient fom Punjab-sindh area upto and beyond the caspian. we have evidence from greek classical sources that sindoi/maeotae of the black sea were from india. same tribes with same names of sinti etc form a huge bulk of the historical roma gypsi migrations into romanian balkans. it is disingenuous of mowgli to claim that the known relationships from SSVC /BMAC times do not impact upon later migrations of punjabi/sindhi (aka jat) clans out of india. foreign origin of kushans (who were responsible for internationalization of buddhism much more than mauryas) is also a huge problem. essentially we get a view of buddhist spread akin to that of christianity ie "on the tramp" or "like a weed". the romans invaded palestine, caught the virus of christianity, which then went on to decimate the roman empire. the kushans invaded india, caught the virus of buddhism, which then went on to infect the great civilizations of china and tibet. we know definitively that this is not the dynamic of buddhism, which is synonymous with how knowledge (dharma) spreads, not middle eastern cults aka "religions"..
jat is same as punjabi as far as macro view of history is concerned.
jat is same as punjabi as far as macro view of history is concerned.