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Proposition: Among the major scholars of South Asian society and history, the Jats are described as -- (to be filled in after some sources have been added below).

I'm keeping in mind two categories for the Jats' description, not now, but what they traditionally were, a caste-based and sociology and economic-history-based.
 * Among tertiary sources, i.e. widely used text-books, not research monographs (such as Chris Bayly's Empire and Information, or Bina Agarwal's A Field of One's Own, or even Susan Bayly's Caste and Society) there are found:
 * "Non-elite" or some notion of not being high-caste, or being outside the caste system (per Peter Robb, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf, Romila Thapar,) below.
 * "Peasant" (which can mean tenant farmer (or tiller) or a farmer with small holdings) per Tirthankar Roy, Asher and Talbot, Burton Stein and David Arnold, David Ludden, Michael Fisher ("Peasant," by the way, means, (OED, 3rd edition, 2005) " A person who lives in the country and works on the land, esp. as a smallholder or a labourer; (chiefly Sociology) a member of an agricultural class dependent on subsistence farming. Now used esp. with reference to foreign countries (or to Britain and Ireland in earlier times), and often to denote members of the lowest and poorest rank of society (sometimes contrasted with prince or noble). In specific contexts the term may be variously defined. Although modern sociologists agree that a peasant works the land, the more wealthy peasants may also be landowners, rentiers, hirers of labour, etc., and in these capacities share interests with completely different social groups. Hence, in the analysis of many rural societies, divisions within the class frequently have to be made."), so the Jats might be middle-peasants per Bina Agarwal's second example, or simply peasants in her first.
 * Among Secondary Sources
 * Non-elite: Susan Bayly
 * "Peasant" there as: Bina Agarwal
 * The Jats were also misogynists par excellence, the spur for the Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870, see Dyson's magnum opus below. Their gender ratios are abysmally low even today, and they are thought to engage widely in sex-selective abortion.

Selected Secondary Sources

 * 1) Bina Agarwal
 * 2) Google scholar citation index 3834.
 * 3) This is a major work of sociological economics.
 * 4) Christopher Bayly
 * 5) Craig Jeffrey
 * 1) Craig Jeffrey
 * 1) Craig Jeffrey