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Gokula

Type Figure Region Northern India Time c. 1635–1670 Also known as Gokula, leader of the Jat uprising

Gokula was a mid-17th-century Jat local leader in northern India, active in Braj (around Mathura).…

Timeline

  1. c. 1651–1665Mathura · MathuraGokula served as a Jat clan leader in the Braj region around Mathura. Against the backdrop of Aurangzeb strengthening religious taxes and land exactions, he gradually gathered local discontent, accumulating manpower and prestige for the later armed uprising.
  2. 1665–1670Braj · BrajAfter 1665 Gokula openly took up arms; in 1669 he killed the Mughal faujdar Abdul Nabi, shocking northern India. The Mughals dispatched a joint Rajput-Muslim force to suppress the revolt. Gokula was defeated and captured in 1670, taken to Agra, and executed. Though the uprising was temporarily crushed, Jat resistance continued.

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