Bhatti | |
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Jāti | |
Religions | |
Languages | Punjabi, Sindhi |
Country | India, Pakistan |
Region | Punjab, Sindh, Rajasthan, Harayana and Azad Kashmir |
Ethnicity | Punjabi, Sindhi |
Bhatti is a Punjabi[1][2] and a Sindhi[3] caste of Rajputs and Jats.[4][5][6] The name Bhatti is a Punjabi form of Bhati,[7] and they along with Bhuttos and Bhatias claim to have originated from the Hindu Bhati Rajputs.[8]
The Muslim Bhattis had control over Bhatner and settlements around it. The Bhattis later lost Bhatner to the Rathores of Bikaner, who renamed Bhatner as Hanumangarh.[9] In the years preceding the Indian rebellion of 1857, the British East India Company assigned pioneering Jat peasants proprietary rights over forested lands frequented by the Rajputs (Bhattis), Gurjars, Banjaras, Passis, and other wandering pastoral groups in Delhi and western Haryana regions.[10]
Some of the gotra are Gill, Kalayana, Shergill, Randhawa, Karu, Kandyara, Bhatti, Sandhu, Nahar, Dhas, Dhab, Hans, Ghusar and Sahole.
... such as the Bhattis, Hans and Dhudhis.
Like most mobile groups of the Arid Zone, the Bhattis were an open ethnic category consisting of all kinds of Rajputs, Jats, and various other groups.
the various Hindu Rajput Bhati sub-clans, like Saran, Moodna, Seora as well as Muslim groups like Bhatti, Bhutto...and the trading community of Bhatiya, all link their origins to the Bhatis
Bhatner (now known as Hanumangarh, in commemoration of a famous victory by a latter ruler of Bikaner....). Around this renowned Bhatner were the settlements of the chiefly muslim Bhattis