Jatwan

Jatwan was a chieftain of present-day Haryana who rebelled against Qutb ud-Din Aibak of the Delhi Sultanate in 1192 CE. He finds a mention in Hasan Nizami's Tajul-Ma'asir, according to which the Delhi army defeated and killed him on the border of Bagar region.

Allegiance

Henry Miers Elliot thought Jatwan to be a leader of Jats, a claim repeated by later writers. For example, Kalika Ranjan Qanungo believed that Jatwan led a Jat rebellion against Aibak. On receiving this news Qutb-ud-din marched twelve farsakhs, i.e., about 40 miles during one night. Jatwan raised the siege of Hansi and prepared for an obstinate conflict. "The armies attacked each other" says the author of Taj-ul-Maasir "like two hills of steel, and the field of battle (on the borders of the Bager country) became tulip-dyed with the blood of warriors. Jatwan had his standards of God-plurality and ensigns of perdition lowered by the hand of power".