Bhati

This article is about the tribe. For the medieval author, see Bhaṭṭikāvya. For the oven called a "bhatti", see Tandoor. For the region, see Bhati (region).
Bhati Gate, Lahore

Bhati (also spelled Bhatti)[1] is a clan of Gurjars,[2] Rajputs[3] and Jats found in South Asia.[4]

Bhati Rajputs:

Bhati (Hindi; भाटी / Bhatti) is a warrior tribe with origins in Indo-pak territory. They belong to the Chandravanshi Rajput. Bhati's early history traced into the desert principality of Jaisalmer, and Sindh Rai Dynast. They are divided into more than forty clans. every clan has their many sub clans and lineages. Bhati is one of the largest Martial race among Rajputs of South asia. Jaisalmer is the major ruling state of them. In modern history the region was known as 'Bhatiyana' (Hindi;भाटीयाणा) They are belongs to the Royal families, some of them served as feudal rulers, Royal Knights, and King's administrators. They reside for the most part in West Rajasthan, the Jaisalmer, in border villages of Bikaner, Barmer and some tehsils of Jodhpur (Osian and Shergarh), and nominally populated in Jalor, Banaskantha and Kuchh in India. The Bhati Rajput are also found in West Punjab, Multan, Sindh (Umarkot, Thar, Khairpur, Mirpur-khas) Multan and nominal numbers in Balochistan. They are found in Hindu, Sikh and Muslims.


Some Gujjar Bhatis were nomadic cattle-keepers. In the years preceding the Indian rebellion of 1857, these groups suffered from decisions made by the British East India Company, which assigned to Jat peasants grazing lands formerly frequented by the Bhatis in the Delhi and Haryana regions. The British were not enamoured of nomadic tribes, whom they thought exacted protection in the areas that they visited, and the policies of land reform were designed in part to limit this mobility.[5]

At least some of the Bhati Rajput of Rajasthan practised female infanticide between 1883-1998.[3] One princess, a daughter of the Hindu Bhati Rajput ruling family in Dipalpur, was married to Salar Rajab, a Muslim ruler, and gave birth to Firuz Shah Tughlaq. This was one of several examples of inter-religious royal marriage alliances during the period of Muslim rule in India.[6] Rajput Bhati princesses were also married into the royal family of Jodhpur.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Babb, Lawrence A.; Cort, John E.; Meister, Michael W. (2008). Desert Temples: Sacred Centers of Rajasthan in Historical, Art-historical, and Social Context. Rawat Publications. p. 98. ISBN 978-8-13160-106-8.
  2. ↑ Singh, Kumar Suresh, ed. (1998). India's communities. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2. The Hindu Gujjar have a number of clans (gotra), such as Bainsale, Bhati, Bankar, Korri, Dhame, Godhane, Khari, Nangari, Khatana Pedia, Peelwar, Tanwar, Fagna, Vidhuri, Vasatte and Lomor
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bhatnagar, Rashmi Dube; Dube, Reena (2005). Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History. SUNY Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-79146-327-7.
  4. ↑ Zafar Iqbal Chaudhary (November 2009). "Epilogue: Bridging divides". Epilogue 3 (11): 48.
  5. ↑ Bayly, Christopher Alan (1990). Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (Reprinted ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 143, 188–189. ISBN 978-0-52138-650-0.
  6. ↑ Sarkar, Jadunath (1994) [1984]. A History of Jaipur (Reprinted, revised ed.). Orient Blackswan. p. 37. ISBN 978-8-12500-333-5.
  7. ↑ Karve, Irawati Karmarkar (1968). Kinship Organization in India (Third ed.). Asia Publishing House. p. 168.