I think the image at this stage is not important. The question right now is that of survival with dignity. A Jat even with an ideal image is not going to get much benefits from the system at present. I reproduce a para from history:
Kings of Kashmira Vol 2 (Rajatarangini of Kalhana)/ Preface, p.xii-xiii
"This activity of the
Khatriyas manifested itself no less in bold investigations into philosophy and religion than in wars ; and in the
Upanishads, composed about this time, very often by
Khatriyas, we see the first recorded human attempts to solve those problems of philosophy which ages and centuries after puzzled the thinkers of
Greece,
Arabia or modern
Europe.
But this activity, of the
Khatriyas appears to have abated after a time, and the Brahmans once more succeeded in assuming, and even monopolizing, that supremacy in thought and learning which the warriors had in vain tried to share with them. In the
Sutra literature, which was written after the
Vedic period, we mark not only the activity of the Brahminical intellect, but also that
unquestioned supremacy which the priests at last established over the
Khatriyas. Not only were philosophy, astronomy, rhetoric, grammar, metre and cognate sciences cultivated by Brahmans with wonderful acuteness and success, but social laws were laid down investing Brahmans with a halo of unapproachable sanctity and glory.
Indeed
Brahmans appear to have used the power which they had now attained to their best advantage ;
there was one law for them, another law for others ;
Brahman offenders were treated with leniency, offenders against Brahmans were punished with tenfold severity; Brahmans alone had the right to expound the
Vedas ; they alone performed all ceremonies and received gifts from other castes ;
they monopolised all the highest and most honorable executive and judicial posts under government, and they also enjoyed a practical monopoly of philosophy, science and learning."
Don't you find similarity between these two time slabs separated by thousands of years in India ?
Are we still not facing the same situation?
Who were the people who started reservation for Brahmanas thousands of years ago who now abuse Jats when they are fighting for the survival?
