Affinity Bloc: South Asian Peoples

Overview: Jat Sikh are an ethnoreligious subgroup of the dominant peasant Jat community of north-west India. They trace their history to the 16th century, when a large section of the Majha Jat embraced Sikhism and crystallized as an endogamous community. They are distributed in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh.

  -- K. S. Singh, People of India, Volume V. India's Communities H-M. Delhi: Oxford University PRess (1998), pp. 1370-1371

Peoples within this cluster: Jat, Sikh

Countries where they are found: Canada; India