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Jaga (Rajasthan)
Jagas are a social caste based group of people higher up
in the Hindu hierarchy who held the traditional job of ge-
References
nealogists of primarily Rajput, Gurjar and Meenas[1] fam- [1] Rajasthan, Volume 1, K. S. Singh, Published by
ilies mainly in Rajasthan and surrounding states. They Popular Prakashan, 1998, pp.434
had power and a matching responsibility for accuracy [2] ^ Sir Henry Miers Elliot (1869). Memoirs on the
as[2] their testimony in legal matters was tenable in the history, folk-lore, and distribution of the races of the
courts. Jagas visited villages in their charge every two to North Western Provinces of India: being an amplified
three years to record the events and collect the custom- edition of the original supplemental glossary of Indian
ary fees in the form of cattle, elephants (from very rich terms. Trübner & co.. pp. 141–.
patrons), grain and money to which they were entitled. http://books.google.com/
Jagas have also been described as Bhats.[2] books?id=uKZJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA141. Retrieved 11
June 2011.
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