Jats, Or Jauts, a race inhabiting India, principally the N. W. portion, between the Indus and Ganges. They have been variously regarded as descendants of the Getae, Dacians, Sacae, Indo-Scythians, Yuechi, Avars, Huns, and many other lost races. They are to all appearance a northern race whose advent is more recent than that of the Rajpoots. They are tall, strong, and active, good tillers of the soil, and if need be good fighters. They form perhaps the finest rural population of India. The Jats of the southern part of the Bari Doab, near Lahore, and of the Malwa district are mostly Sikhs; but perhaps not one third of the whole population between the Jhylum and Jumna have as yet embraced the tenets of Nanak and Govind (see Sikhs), and the other two thirds are about equally divided between Mohammedanism and Brahmanism. Capt. Burton mentions that a wandering predatory tribe bearing the name of Jats are found about Candahar, Herat, and Meshed. The Jats of the lower Indus appear to be of the same race as the Brahooee of Afghanistan. (See Iranian Races, and India, Races and Languages of.)