MUSLIM JATT OR MULEY JATT
The Muley Jat, or sometimes pronounced as Mola/Mula Jat, are a community of Jats found mainly in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, and the province of Punjab in Pakistan. They are predominantly Muslim.
The Muslim Muley Jats are converts from the Hindu Jat community of North India who converted to Islam during the Muslim rule, but not every Muslim convert is referred to as a Muley, the term being restricted to those Jats who inhabit western Uttar Pradesh and were once found in Haryana, and speak dialects of Urdu and Hindi such as Haryanvi and Khari boli. Those Muley Jat who inhabited the state of Haryana moved en masse to Pakistan, after the partition of India.
The Muley Jat, or sometimes pronounced as Mola/Mula Jat, are a community of Jats found mainly in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, and the province of Punjab in Pakistan. They are predominantly Muslim.
The Muslim Muley Jats are converts from the Hindu Jat community of North India who converted to Islam during the Muslim rule, but not every Muslim convert is referred to as a Muley, the term being restricted to those Jats who inhabit western Uttar Pradesh and were once found in Haryana, and speak dialects of Urdu and Hindi such as Haryanvi and Khari boli. Those Muley Jat who inhabited the state of Haryana moved en masse to Pakistan, after the partition of India.
The Muley Jat are found in ASARA (leader of Muslim jats), Kaserwa village, Harsoli,Shernagar, Tavli, Sanjhak, Bilaspur, Nirmani, Shoram, Kabirpur, Kirthal, Sikka, and Rithoda at Muzaffar Nagar.in western UP, the Muley Jat are also known by their surname Choudhary in Muzaffar Nagar, Bhagpat, Ghaziabad, Meerut, and Shahranpur.
The Muley Jat do not believe in castetism systems, but they believe in Islam very deeply.
There are many social workers, Teachers, Engineers and judges among them in western up. Abid Husain from Kaserwa (Muzaffar Nagar) was the first master's degree holders among the Muley Jat; he got the degree of M.A. English in 1975 and Mohd Usman is the first master's degree holder from any English country, New Zealand. chowdhary Kamroo Nambardar (Asara village, Bagpat) is the chief of all muley jat community and her brother of Noor Mohammad is a Government servant in uttar pradesh.
Outside India, Muley Jat are also found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, England, America, Canada, and Bangladesh. They are now found in the western parts of the state of Uttar Pradesh, mainly in the districts of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut and Baghpat. In Baghpat District, they are found mainly in several villages near the town of Chaprauli. Important Muley Jat villages include Asara (more than 25000 population) in Baghpat District, and Sher Nagar (mussa) in Muzaffarnagar District.[4]
The Hindu Muley Jats (also known as Naye Jat), who had recently converted to their ancestral faith (Hinduism), were not accepted by the larger Hindu Jat community for making marital relations and hence they intermarry within themselves.
The community are mainly owner cultivators, with many being substantial landowners, and inhabit villages that are exclusively Muley Jat. Animal husbandry and poultry are secondary occupations. The Muley Jat have a tribal council, known as a khap panchayat. Offences that are dealt with by the tribal council include adultery, elopement, disputes over land and water, and theft. It is also used to maintain a system of social control over members of the community, particularly with regards to marriage. They speak Khari Boliamong themselves, and Urdu with outsiders.[6]
The Muley Jat are mainly a community of owner cultivators, and have much in common with the other neighbouring Muslim agrarian castes, such as the Ranghar and Tyagi Muslim. Like the Ranghar, the Muley Jat are strictly endogamous, and practice the custom of gotra and village exogamy. Their marriage customs are similar to the wider Jatcommunity.
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