Jats
the most numerous and valuable section of the agricultural population of the Punjab, number about 5,000,000.
They are by many identified with the 30,000.
JEAN JAURES a Castres, 1859, educated at the Lycée Louis le Grand and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He was appointed professor of philosophy in the University of Toulouse, where he remained till 1885, when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a radical republican . Four years later, running for re-election , he the sa is adve Any for , within a-general condition nd not ligerent was asad a fanatic ata to aver and of the St. Nichol dis av Bels. of the in Chains. Th of which sare gene ants when of them a ds on the enhealthy hills. ng to the The E living sm that 30, and ndred zed than archipelag stant and for the w JAVA was defeated by a Monarchist candidate.
Soon Soon after he became famous as a Soand as editor of the Socialist organ, L'Humanité, which he founded in 1904.
He became internationally prominent when he joined Émile Zola , the novelist, in the defence of Captain Dreyfus and the exposure of the corruption in the French Army which made made of Dreyfus a scapegoat. Jaurès was a continuous advocate of an agree ment with Germany for mutual disarmament. He also, within the Socialist party, favored a general strike against war, but only on condition the strike was international, and not confined only to one of the belligerent countries. On July 31, July 31, 1914, he was assassinated in a a fanatical patriot, because of his efforts to avert the impending war.