The Jats are a political force in Rajasthan and the community's presence in 85 assembly constituencies may tilt the balance in electoral politics. IMAGE: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot at the ...

Images of mobs setting eateries, houses and schools on fire during last year’s quota agitation in Haryana have not faded from public memory and the Jats are in protest mode again. Jat protesters at a ...

For three days in February, a violent caste protest shook the Indian state of Haryana. Protestors from the Jat caste blocked the national highway, halted trains, set buses on fire, and torched the ...

Jats are an agricultural community mainly concentrated in the northern states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab and Delhi. Their population exceeds 8 crores. Haryana has the highest ...

In Rohtak's market areas, stores owned by Punjabis and the Saini community were looted and burnt. Rohtak, Haryana: As the agitation by Jats seeking reservations heated up in Haryana last week, the ...

Bharpoor Singh Jakhar outside his furniture store in Jhajjar town. The Sehwag International School in Jhajjar district. The contagion of consumerism isn't limited to children. The numbers of SUVs in ...

The reservation-seeking faction of Haryana’s Jats, who had threatened to disrupt the February 15 Jind rally of BJP chief Amit Shah, called-off their stir on Sunday night after a six-hour meeting with ...

Former Union Minister and diplomat Ajay Singh is the president of the All India Jat Mahasabha. He watched at close quarters how the Union government’s decision to introduce reservation in jobs for ...

The Jat community has been agitating for reservations for years. (File photo: Press Trust of India) New Delhi: The Jats of Uttar Pradesh, mainly concentrated in the western flank of the state, have ...