The Jats: Their Role and Contribution to the Socio-Economic Life and Polity of North-West India (Volume 3)

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The present Volume III contains twenty nine research articles from the proceedings of the VIth National Seminar on the topic: The Jats: Their Role and Contribution to the Socio-economic Life and Polity of North and North-West India'. This seminar was organized in 2006 by the Maharaja Surajmal Centre for Research and Publication of the Surajmal Memorial Education Society, C-4, Janak Puri, New Delhi.

If we glance at the papers presented they start from tracing the roots of the Jats in the hoary past and go on to explain their role and contribution in various fields upto the modern times. To illuminate the various aspects of social, economic, political and cultural life of the Jat community including agricultural and military, the papers have been presented on the inter-disciplinary approach by the learned scholars.

Dr. Vir Singh after superannuation from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, in 2000, is presently an Honorary Director of Research and Publication Centre, Surajmal Memorial Education Society, New Delhi.

Dr. Vir Singh used his intensive study of the primary sources on the Jats to update three prominent works on the Jat History:

1. "Hindustan Mein Jat Satta" Wendel's Memoirs on Jats in Hindi (2001)

2. History of the Jats, Prof. KR Qanungo (2003)

One of the important organs of Surajmal Memorial Education Society, Maharaja Surajmal Centre for Research and Publication, has been undertaking the collection, preservation and publication of material on rural heritage specially relating to the life and role of peasants in our national endeavours. The educational complex of the Society has also a rich library. accommodation for housing more than two hundred students and guest rooms for research scholars.

The Society has always strived for excellence and in that attempt National Seminars are organized. The Centre is striving to dig out the source material from various repositories and archives. Eminent scholars are invited from every nook and corner to present their research findings in various seminars. The seminar over the years has become a regular feature of our activities and we are happy to find that every year newer scholars, newer subjects, newer interpretations and newer academic vistas open before us to discuss the subject. This is actually the sixth in the series of the Seminars. We felt that the Seminar is well covered by all related disciplines. Other feature of the Seminar is that we encourage inter-disciplinary approach because without that you cannot have a feel of the whole society or economic situation at that time and of course rulers and their satraps. Along with this, we have a complete picture of the Society and that probably is a better way of looking at things of a particular period than just dynastyism and things like that.