ABSTRACT
Garasia Jatt accounts of their settlement and sedentarisation across Kachchh become at least one manifest example through which one may be able to account for the ambivalence produced by Kachchh 's merger into Gujarat, as it is experienced by at least some of its subjects. Narrative accounts of Garasia Jatt history are a comment on the process by which they came to settle in Kachchh. As such, they are origin stories, but it is important to note that these stories closely associate the Jatts' early fortunes in Kachchh with those of the princely state. Lakhond is a village approximately eight miles east of Bhuj. It has a large Jatt population and occupies a significant place in their mythico-historical past, for it is believed to be the first village settled by the Jatts, following a royal land grant in their name. Garasia Jatt accounts state that they were once upon a time pastoralists like the Danete Jatts.
