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                         A JUTT.
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CAPTAIN BURTON includes the Jutts, or Jats, in his record of true Belochee tribes, but they do not appear to be numerous or formidable.  Among the Belochees on the northern frontier of Sind there are some communities of them, and they are mentioned also in Major Minchin's report on the Beloch tribes in the Dehra Ghazee Khan district; though beyond the remark that they live in communities, to which they are much attached, and are thereby more easily managed, there is no special record of them.  Whether they are the Jats of India may be considered a doubtful point, though there is no question that the Jats emigrated from the banks of the Indus, and settled in their present locality, where they have maintained their Hindoo faith; and it is probable, also, that they emigrated in order to escape the Mahomedan proselytism, which affected the whole of Sind and Mooltan.  If the Jutts of Sind and the Jats of Bhurtpoor are of the same stock, the former are the remnant of the tribe which remained in Sind and became Mahomedans.
   The present chief of the Jutts, Ahmed Khan, resides at Juttee, and enjoys a very considerable estate; but he is not a person of much influence, though he bears the title of "Mullik."  The tenure of his estates is of the highest antiquity.
   The Jutts of Lower Sind are altogether an inferior class from those of the upper province.  They are, almost by hereditary profession, tenders and drivers of camels.  An officer's "Jutt" is, in fact, his camel-driver, the word being as commonly used for the calling, as for the tribe which pursues it.
   The person represented is a Jutt of Upper Sind, and is distinguished by the long yellow leather posteen, or jacket of sheepskin with the wool inside, which belongs to his tribe.  His large turban and under dress are white.  He is five feet eleven inches in height, and is of a fair complexion.