14. Occupation.
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Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
The Jāts are good cultivators, and at the thirty years’ settlement (1865) several members of the caste held considerable estates; but a number of these have now been lost, owing probably to extravagance of living. In Saugor the Jāts are commonly employed as masons or navvies.
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1 This article is partly based on information contributed by Mr. Debendra Nāth Dutt, Pleader, Narsinghpur; Mr. Ganga Singh, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Hoshangābād; and Mr. Adurām Chaudhri of the Gazetteer Office. The correct pronunciation of the caste name is Jat, but in the Central Provinces it is always called Jāt.
2Punjab Census Report (1881), para. 421.
3Early History of India.
4 Mahābhārata, viii. 2026, et seq., translated by Professor H. H. Wilson, and quoted in vol. i. pp. 260, 262 of Dr. J. Wilson’s Indian Caste.
5Ibidem, paras. 422–424.
6 Kashyap was a Rishi or saint, but he may probably have developed into an eponymous hero from Kachhap, a tortoise.
7Hoshangābād Settlement Report, p. 62.
8Aegle marmelos.
9Hoshangābād Settlement Report, loc. cit.