Jat, Sangli
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| Country | India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| District | Sangli |
| Government | |
| • Body | Jath Nagarpalika |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,258.28 km2 (871.93 sq mi) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Total | 65,000 |
| • Density | 29/km2 (75/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Marathi,kannada |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 416-404 |
| Telephone code | 02344 |
| Vehicle registration | MH-10 |
| Coastline | 0 kilometres (0 mi) |
| sangli | Sangli, Vijapur, Miraj, Kupwad, sangli |
| Literacy | 50%% |
| Climate | sunny (Köppen) |
| Avg. summer temperature | 25–40 °C (77–104 °F) |
| Avg. winter temperature | 20–27 °C (68–81 °F) |
| Website | jath |
Jath (Marathi:जत,kannada :ಜತ್ತ) is a town and taluka headquarters in Miraj subdivision of Sangli district in southern Maharashtra in India. It is often spelled as "Jath" according to South Indian lexical nomenclature. Jat is one of the largest talukas in Maharashtra state. Jat is sort of infamous for its famine-prone geographical conditions. It has been historically demographic part of Man Desh.
It was the former capital of Jath State, one of the non-salute Maratha princely states of British India, under the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency. It was a southern Maratha Jagir.
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History
Some sources say, in ancient period, town was called Jayantinagar. Jat was capital of former Maratha Jagir ruled by Dafales. Most of the dynasty period was affiliated to Vijapur(Bijapur). For some period it was associated with Kolhapur as well as Satara Maratha Dynasties. Later Jat became a non-salute princely state until independence of India. Then it was part of Satara district. When Sangli district was formed, Jat became eastern tehsil of Sangli.
Demographics
Official languages are Marathi(primary), Kannada. Eastern and southern villages have large number of Kannada speaking population, due to its close vicinity of Kannada speaking region. The kannada population is majority in border villages.Mahajan commission offered 44 kannada villages to be transefered to karnataka.
Culture
Jat taluka is surrounded by various religious places , one of them is Daridev (Dari Appa) this place located south west of Jat near to Muchandi Village . Daridev is incarnation of lord Shiva , lot of devotees from Maharashtra and Karnataka visit this place during full moon . Annual Fair (Jatra) is celebrated in second week of April each year , this is the time when lot of people come to there home town to visit there God (kuldaivat).
Near to jat city on a hill very nice temple of Ambabai ( Mahalaxmi) is situated. People come to take blessing of Maa Amba during Navratri Festival .This place some times use be to be dense forest now a days due to less rain and wood cutting greenery of this place is vanishing and what we can see from remote that only a temple .
Mata Yallama ( Gram Daivat ) temple is towards south of Jat city .Aai (mother) Yallama is incarnation of goddes Durga/Laxmi , during Chaitri Pornima (Fool Moon) flood of people come to take blessing of Aai . Jatra (annual fair) is arranged in the month of Margashirsh. This is the time lot of peoples come from everywhere mostly Karnataka and Maharashtra , biggest Bail Bazar ( Cattle Market) organized during the fair time which is the good time for farmers to sell/buy there cattle. Guddapur is also famous religious place for devotees from karnataka with goddess Dhanamma devi. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
