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Bhatti is a Punjabi and Sindhi caste of Jats and Rajputs. They are linked to the Bhatias and Bhuttos, all of whom claim to originate from the Hindu Bhati Rajputs. [1] [2]

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Etymology

Bhatti is considered a Punjabi form of Bhati. [3]

History

The Bhattis are Punjabi [4] [5] [6] and Sindhi. [7] [8] [9] The Bhats, are descended from a common ancestor, Rao Bhati, a 3rd-century Hindu monarch. [10] 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. [11] In the years preceding the Indian rebellion of 1857 [ page needed ], 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. [12]

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  1. Epilogue, Vol 4, Issue 5. Epilogue -Jammu Kashmir. p. 21. 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...
  2. Assadi, Muzaffar (24 November 2023). Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia: Zaat/Caste Among Muslims. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-003-80246-4. 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.
  3. Davies 2012.
  4. Eaton, Richard Maxwell (2000). "The Political and Religious Authority of the Shrine of Baba Farid in Pak-pattan, Punjab". Essays on Islam and Indian history. New Delhi ; New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 345–346. ISBN   978-0-19-565114-0.
  5. Nazir, Pervaiz (1993). "Social Structure, Ideology and Language: Caste among Muslims". Economic and Political Weekly. 28 (52): 2897–2900. ISSN   0012-9976. JSTOR   4400597.
  6. Gandhi, Surjit Singh (2007). History of Sikh Gurus Retold: 1469-1606 C.E. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 2. ISBN   978-81-269-0857-8. 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.
  7. Weekes, Richard V. (1984). Muslims Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey; Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Second ed.). Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 685. ISBN   0-313-23392-6.
  8. "Sindh | History, Culture & Economy | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Encyclopedia Britannica. 29 May 2024. 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..[ citation needed ]
  9. Abdulla, Ahmed (1973). The Historical Background of Pakistan and Its People. Tanzeem Publishers. p. 96. 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.
  10. Lethbridge, Sir Roper (1900). 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. London: S. Low, Marston & Company. p. 112.
  11. Hooja, Rima (2006). A History of Rajasthan. Rupa & Company. p. 385. ISBN   978-81-291-0890-6. 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
  12. Bayly 1990, pp. 143, 188–189.

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