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 ...

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 ...

The Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party have adopted starkly different yet eerily similar electoral strategies in Haryana, which will go to polls on October 5. The Congress has given most of ...

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 ...

Jat leaders on Wednesday began a protest at Jaicholi in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, demanding inclusion of the community in the central Other Backward Classes (OBC) list. Inclusion in the central ...

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 ...

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 ...