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{{Short description|Punjabi and Sindhi caste of Jats and Rajputs}}
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'''Bhatti''' is a [[Punjabis|Punjabi]] and [[Sindhis|Sindhi]] clan of [[Rajputs]]. They are linked to the [[Bhatia caste|Bhatia]]s and [[Bhutto (clan)|Bhuttos]], all of whom claim to originate from the [[Hindus|Hindu]] [[Bhati]] Rajputs.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yUy7QpJp7MC&dq=://edu/google&pg=PA21 |title=Epilogue, Vol 4, Issue 5 |publisher=Epilogue -Jammu Kashmir |page=21 |language=en |quote=Hindu Rajputs have been classified into various ('''sub castes''') like Thakers, Manhas, Chauhan Thakyal, Chandial, Charrak, Kamlak, and Chib Muslim Rajputs have been further divided in to various sub castes such as, Jarral, Malik, Domal, Thakyal, Khokhar, Janjua, Salaria, Bhatti...}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Assadi |first=Muzaffar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7HYEAAAQBAJ&dq=://edu/google&pg=PT160 |title=Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia: Zaat/Caste Among Muslims |date=2023-11-24 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-003-80246-4 |language=en |quote=Additionally, they ecognized the '''castes''' that underwent conversion owing to political pressure, including Rangres, Bhatti, Gholam Mohamed, Pachada, and Bustee, a caste that may be traced back to Rajputs.}}</ref> They claim descent from the [[Lunar dynasty|Chandravanshi]] dynasty.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gahlot |first1=Sukhvir Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DuAtAAAAMAAJ&q=bhati+chandravanshi |title=Castes and Tribes of Rajasthan |last2=Dhar |first2=Banshi |date=1989 |publisher=Jain Brothers |isbn=978-81-85287-00-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Parihar |first=Vinita |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zw0cAAAAIAAJ&q=bhati+chandravanshi |title=Society in Transition |date=1989 |publisher=Printwell Publishers |isbn=978-81-7044-152-6 |language=en}}</ref>

== Etymology ==
Bhatti is considered a Punjabi and Sindhi form of [[Bhati]].{{Sfn|Davies|2012}}<ref name="NB2017">{{cite book |last1=Baloch |first1=Dr. Nabi Baksh Khan |title=Fatahnama-i Sindh: being the original record of the Arab conquest of Sindh (712-15 A.D) |date=2017 |isbn=978-9699860133 |page=82}}</ref>

== History ==

The Bhattis are [[Punjabis|Punjabi]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eaton |first=Richard Maxwell |author-link=Richard M. Eaton |title=Essays on Islam and Indian history |date=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-565114-0 |location=New Delhi; New York |pages=345–346 |chapter=The Political and Religious Authority of the Shrine of Baba Farid in Pak-pattan, Punjab}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nazir |first=Pervaiz |date=1993 |title=Social Structure, Ideology and Language: Caste among Muslims |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4400597 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=28 |issue=52 |pages=2897–2900 |issn=0012-9976 |jstor=4400597}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gandhi |first=Surjit Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qw7-kUkHA_0C&q=Bhatti&pg=PA1 |title=History of Sikh Gurus Retold: 1469-1606 C.E |date=2007 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist |isbn=978-81-269-0857-8 |page=2 |language=en |quote=In the valley of the upper Indus, that is in Ladakh and Little Tibet, the prevailing caste was the Bhatti sub-division of the great Tartar variety of the human race.}}</ref> and [[Sindhis|Sindhi]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weekes |first1=Richard V. |title=Muslims Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey; Second Edition, Revised and Expanded |date=1984 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=0-313-23392-6 |edition=Second |location=Westport, Conn |page=685}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=29 May 2024 |title=Sindh {{!}} History, Culture & Economy {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Sindh-province-Pakistan |website=www.britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en |quote=Indigenous groups are the Mehs, or Muhannas, descendants of the ancient Mēds; Sammas and the related Lakhas, Lohānās, Nigamaras, Kahahs, and Channas; Sahtas, Bhattīs, and Thakurs of Rajput origin; Jats and Lorras..}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Abdulla |first1=Ahmed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfQLAAAAIAAJ |title=The Historical Background of Pakistan and Its People |date=1973 |publisher=Tanzeem Publishers |page=96 |language=en |quote=Among others are the Bhattis, Lakha, Sahetas, Lohanas, Mohano, Dahars, Indhar, Chachar, Dhareja, Rathors, Dakhan, Langah etc. The Mohano tribe is spread over Makran, Sind and southern Punjab. They are also identified with the “Mallah’ of the Punjab and both have in common a sub-section called Manjari. All these old Sindhi tribes are known under the common nomenclature of Sammat.}}</ref> The Bhattis are descended from a common ancestor, [[Rao Bhati]], a 3rd-century [[Hinduism|Hindu]] monarch.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Lethbridge |first=Sir Roper |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zykYAAAAYAAJ |title=The Golden Book of India. A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated, of the Indian Empire. With an Appendix for Ceylon |publisher=S. Low, Marston & Company |year=1900 |location=London |page=112 |language=en}}</ref> The Muslim Bhattis had control over Bhatner and settlements around it. The Bhattis later lost Bhatner to the [[Rathore (Rajput clan)|Rathore]]s of [[Bikaner]], who renamed Bhatner as [[Hanumangarh]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hooja |first=Rima |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tosMAQAAMAAJ&q=Jangal+desh |title=A History of Rajasthan |publisher=Rupa & Company |year=2006 |isbn=978-81-291-0890-6 |pages=385 |quote=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}}</ref> In the years preceding the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]]{{Page needed|date=August 2024}}, the [[East India Company|British East India Company]] assigned pioneering [[Jat]] peasants proprietary rights over forested lands frequented by the Rajputs (Bhattis), [[Gurjar]]s, [[Banjara]]s, Passis, and other wandering pastoral groups in [[Delhi]] and western [[Haryana]] regions.{{Sfn|Bayly|1990|pp=143, 188–189}}

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== Sources ==

* {{cite book |last=Bayly |first=Christopher Alan |author-link=Christopher Bayly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fX2zMfWqIzMC&pg=PA188 |title=Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-521-38650-0 |edition=Reprinted |pages=143, 188–189}}
* {{Citation |last=Davies |first=C. Collin |title=Bhaṭṭi |date=2012 |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/*-SIM_1385 |access-date= |publisher=Brill |language=en |doi=10.1163/1573-3912_islam_sim_1385 |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia of Islam|Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition]]|url-access=subscription }}

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