Bhati (Hindi: भाटी, romanized: Bhātī) is an ancient warrior clan of Rajputs which claims descent from a common ancestor, Rao Bhatti.[1] The Bhati clan historically ruled over several cities in present-day Pakistan and India, with their final capital and kingdom being Jaisalmer, India. The Punjabi inflection of the word is Bhatti.[2][3]
The Bhatis of Jaisalmer belonged to the Yadava clan of Rajputs.[4] They reportedly originated in Mathura through a common ancestor named Bhatti, who was a descendant of Pradyumn.[5] According to the seventeenth-century Nainsi ri Khyat, the Bhatis after losing Mathura moved to Bhatner in Lakhi Jungle, and from there to other locations in western and northwestern India including Punjab. Jaisalmer had a dynasty with a successful line of rulers and this became their center. Bhatner, Pugal, Bikrampur, Barsalpur, Deravar, Maroth, Kehror, Aasnikot, Tanot, Lodhruva 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.[2] The Phulkian dynasty claimed direct descent from Rawal Jaisal Singh, the Bhati Rajput founder of the Kingdom of Jaisalmer.[6]
the various Hindu Rajput Bhati sub-clans, like Saran, Moodna, Seora as well as Muslim groups like Bhatti, Bhutto...and the trading community of Bhatiya, all link their origins to the Bhatis
Like the Bhatis of Jaisalmer, the chiefs of Karauli also belonged to the Yadava clan of Rajputs.