During the British Indian Army era, Sybilla Barrow — artist and wife of General Sir George Barrow — visited the Jat Regimental Centre at Bareilly.
Young recruits were presented before her, one after another.
Finally, the Subedar Major himself Mauji Ram came forward to understand what the Gorimam was searching for.
The moment she saw him, she asked him to sit down and keep Staring. 6 feet 3 inches tall Jat, sculpted face.
"But Gorimam, I am an old man," he reportedly protested.
"Never mind. I think you are perfectly," she replied.
She ended up painting him twice — once as he stood before her, and once as she imagined him in as a young men, drawn entirely from the her imagination.
Both paintings hang at the JAT Regimental Centre, Bareilly.
Long after medals fade and generations change, some symbols continue.
Mauji Ram Jat remains one of them.
Jaat Balwan, Gorimem wet.
