Bhati

Bhati is a clan of Rajputs,

Jaisalmer State was founded by the Bhati Rajputs and ruled it till Indian independence in 1947.

History

According to the late seventeenth century Muhnot Nainsi’s Kyat, the Bhatis originated in Mathura through a common ancestor named Bhati, who was a descendant of Pradyumn, the son of Krishna, and that the Bhatis are Jaduvanshis. He states that after losing Mathura the Bhatis moved to Bhatner in Lakhi Jungle, and from there to other locations in western and northwestern India with their center at Jaisalmer. Bhatner, Pugal, Bikrampur, Barsalpur, Deravar, Maroth, Kehror, Aasnikot, Tanot, Ludrovo and Mamanvahan were some of the fortified settlements that were historically ruled by the Bhati clan or subclans. The Bhati ruler Vijayrao was known as the ‘uttara disi bhad kivaad’ (the sentinel of the north direction), due to his control over forts and settlements that extended from Ghazni to Gujarat, leading to several conflicts with the invading Muslim tribes. One princess, a daughter of the Hindu Bhati ruling family in Dipalpur, was married to Salar Rajab, a Turkic Muslim ruler, and gave birth to Firuz Shah Tughlaq. Rajput Bhati princesses were also married into the royal family of Jodhpur.