All the Jats of Sindh are
muslims except one tribe of "Jātia" which is a
hindu tribe of
Thar desert.[5] The Jats of Sindh are mainly divided into three sections:
First are Larai Jutts/Jat (Sindhi: جت) known for their ancient ancestral camel-herding profession,[6][7] they speak
Juttki/Jatki a very old dialect of
Sindhi language,[8]Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai has also written some poems in Juttki/Jatki dialect of Sindhi, in his famous book of "
Shah jo Risalo". These Jutts are in much love with Shah latif, as much as so they memorize whole book of Shah jo Risalo, and make their children remember the whole book. In fact in older times, the boys and girls were not got married until they memorized the whole book. These jutts are mainly found in "Lāṛu" region of lower Sindh, the city "
Jati" is named after them.[9][10]
The Jats are one of the ancient Sindhi tribes, many Arab, Persian, and Greek historians have written about Jats, and ancient Hindu texts have also mentioned them. The Arab historians like
Al-Biladuri and
Ibn Hawqal mentions two Sindhi tribes "
Zutts (Jats) and '
Meds".[12][13]
The Persian written
Chachnama mentions the
Sama, Sahita,
Channa,
Lohana,
Meds and
Jats as the ancient indigenous people of Sindh.[14] There is probably also the mention of Sindhi jats in Hindu epic
Mahabharata, in which Jats are mentioned as inhabitants of Sindh, and they were associated with sea and river occupations.[15]
The Sindhi Jats were
pastoralists in lower Sindh, the original homeland of the Sindhi Jats was the lower Indus valley of Sindh. They were nomadic pastoralists who had migrated from the lower
Indus river valley of
Sindh to the northern parts of Sindh (including present-day
Multan) and later to
Punjab and other north Indian regions.[16][17][18] Some of these Sindhi Jats migrated as far as
Iraq,[19]Middle East and in
Persian Gulf countries. There are also many Sindhi Jats living in
Bandar Abbas in Iran.[5] They were originally
Hindus by religion and were the earliest people of Indian subcontinent who had interaction with the pre-islamic inhabitants of
Iran and
Middle East, multiple trading communities of Jats existed in the
pre-Islamic Arabia.[20] They were referred as
Zutts (
Arabic: الزُّطِّ,
romanized: Az-Zutt) by arabs in early Arab writings, and as (Jat-an or Jaat) byPersians.[9] The arabs also called them Al Asawera, Al Siyabij, Al Andargar, Madan, etc.[5] They were also present in
Mesopotamia and
Syria.[1]
During the
Arab conquest of Sind in 711 AD, Sindhi Jats underwent resettlement orchestrated by
al-Ḥajāj to a comparable riverine setting in Lower
Iraq, referred to as the
Baṭāʾiḥ. Subsequently, both
al-Walīd I and
Yazīd I oversaw the relocation of additional Jat groups to northwestern Syria, accompanied by water buffaloes suitable for the region's warm coastal plains. Nevertheless, a notable portion of the Jat populace chose to remain in
Iraq.[21]
Sindhi Jats were the first people of the Indian subcontinent who embraced
Islam during the Prophet
Muhammad era,[22] they fought on the side of
Ali in the
Battle of the Camel in 656 under their chief, Ali B. Danur.[23] The Sindhi Jats of Arabia helped
Muhammad bin Qasim in the conquest of Sind in the eighth century.[24][5] All the
Jats (
Zutt) of the world have origins in Sindh.
^"Indus Delta's unique 'Kharai' camels on verge of extinction". Daily Times. 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2024-01-22. In the famous love story of Sassi Punnuh from Sindhi folklore, Punnuh was a Jatt from Makran who falls in love with Sassi and came to Sindh to marry her. Famous Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai has also sung about Jatts and their camels in his poetry.
^"جت : (Sindhianaسنڌيانا)". www.encyclopediasindhiana.org (in Sindhi). Retrieved 2024-01-22. [The first mention of the Jat tribes may have been made in the Mahabharata, in which the Jats are described as inhabitants of Sindh and associated with sea and river occupations.]
^Nahyan, Mansoor Bin Tahnoon Al; Hussain, Jamal; Ghafoor, Asad ul (2019-05-09).
Tribes of Pakistan. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 108.
ISBN978-1-5275-3439-1.
^Nizam, Muhammad Huzaifa (2023-01-15).
"HOW THE INDUS VALLEY FED ISLAM'S GOLDEN AGE". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2024-01-22. these Jatts, known as Zutt in Arabic, were amongst the earliest in Persia to accept Islam and thus join with the Muslim armies in their further conquests. They were also later replenished with more of their men, when the Indus Valley fell into the hands of the Ummayad Caliphate in 711 CE.