Bhati (Rajput clan)
Bhati is a clan of Rajputs,[1][2][3] found in India and Pakistan.[4] The Bhati Rajputs (also known as Bargala) claim Chandravanshi origin.[5]
Origin and History
changeIn Jaisalmer, the Bhati clan sometimes refer to themselves as the Yaduvanshi Rajput, reflecting their claimed mythological descent from Krishna and Yadu[6]
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.[7]
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.[8]
References
change- ↑ Bhatnagar, Rashmi Dube; Dube, Reena (2005). Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History. SUNY Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-7914-6327-7.
- ↑ Singh, Kumar Suresh, ed. (1998). India's communities. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2.
- ↑ Eaton, Richard M. (2017). "Reconsidering 'Conversion to Islam' in Indian History". In Peacock, A. C. S. (ed.). Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History. Edinburgh University Press. p. 386. ISBN 978-1474417129. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ↑ Zafar Iqbal Chaudhary (November 2009). "Epilogue: Bridging divides". Epilogue. 3 (11): 48.
- ↑ India's communities. Oxford University Press. 1998. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-19-563354-2.
Bargala, also known as Bhutta Rajput, the Bargala live in Uttar Pradesh. They trace their origin to Chandravanshi Rajput ruler Jagpalii Vare Singh
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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