Bhati (Rajput clan)

Bhati is a clan of Rajputs,[1][2] found in India and Pakistan.[3] The Bhati Rajputs claim descent from the Yaduvanshi branch of the Chandravanshi lineage and thus, from Lord Krishna.[4]

The Bhati Rajputs historically ruled over several cities in present-day India and Pakistan with their final capital and kingdom being Jaisalmer, India.

Origin and History

In Jaisalmer, the Bhati clan sometimes refer to themselves as the Yaduvanshi Rajput, reflecting their claimed mythological descent from Krishna and Yadu[5]

Some Bhati Rajputs were nomadic cattle-keepers. In the years preceding the Indian rebellion of 1857, these groups lost land by 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.[6]


In some parts of modern Pakistan, some lower-caste's now also call themselves 'Bhattis'; a fact deeply resented by the authentic Bhatti Rajputs of Pakistan.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Bhatnagar, Rashmi Dube; Dube, Reena (2005). Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History. SUNY Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-7914-6327-7.
  2. ↑ Singh, Kumar Suresh, ed. (1998). India's communities. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2.
  3. ↑ Zafar Iqbal Chaudhary (November 2009). "Epilogue: Bridging divides". Epilogue. 3 (11): 48.
  4. ↑ Rathore, Virendra Singh (2020-09-29). Prithviraj Chauhan - a Light on the Mist in History. Virendra Singh Rathore. ISBN 978-1-63640-019-8.
  5. ↑ Bose, Melia Belli (2015). Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art. BRILL. p. 8. ISBN 978-9-00430-056-9.
  6. ↑ Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (Reprinted ed.). Cambridge University Press. 1990. pp. 143, 188–189. ISBN 978-0-521-38650-0.
  7. ↑ Dr M Riyasat Husain 'Caste and clan in Northern and Central Punjab and some patterns of shift: An analysis' in Journal of South Asian Study Vol 2, No 8, 1992, Lahore, pp 21-46
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