The Jad people are a semi-nomadic tribe living in the Great Himalayas mountain range in the Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand states of India.
[1] The famous tourist attraction Gartang Gali is near their village of Sang, Uttarakhand.
Jadhang village itself and the Jad people living in Jadhang and Nelang valley are named after a man named Jadha, who was resettled here in 1849 by British adventurer Frederick Wilson.
The settlement document of the Garhwal Kingdom, which administered this area, from that era reads, "Wilson invited certain Jadha from the upper Pargana of Kunawar in Bashahr state (now in Himachal Pradesh) to settle at Nilang, re-establish the hamlet of Jadhang and administered the area on behalf of Maharaja Bhavani Shah [r. 1859-71 CE]."
[2] As of 2001[update], the Jad people were classified as a Scheduled Tribe under the Indian government's reservation program of positive discrimination.