Bhatti is a

Punjabi Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...

and a Sindhi clan of Rajputs. and

Jats The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subse ...

. The name Bhatti is a Punjabi form of

Bhati Bhati is a clan of Rajputs History The Bhatis reportedly originated in Mathura through a common ancestor named Bhati, who was a descendant of Pradyumn. According to the seventeenth-century Nainsi ri Khyat, the Bhatis after losing Mathura ...

, and they along with Bhuttos and Bhatias claim to have originated from the

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

Bhati Rajputs. The Bhati/Bhatti Rajputs, are descended from a common ancestor,

Rao Bhatti Rao Bhatti (c. 3rd century), also known as Raja Bhatti, was an ancient Hindu monarch. Bhatti ruled during the 3rd century. He was the principal common ancestor of the Bhati/Bhatti Rajput clan present in modern-day Pakistan and India. Bhatti an ...

, a 3rd-century

monarch. 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. In the years preceding the Indian rebellion of 1857, the British East India Companey 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.

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# Dulla Bhatti, a folk hero from Pindi Bhattian, present-day Pakistan, who is famous in Punjab for leading a revolt against the Mughal emperor

Akbar Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Hum ...

and is thus praised during Lohri. # Jaspal Bhatti, a famous Indian television personality from

Amritsar Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...

. # Rai Bhoe Bhatti, a feudal lord of the clan during the latter half of the 15th century who headed the jagir of present-day Nankana Sahib. # Rai Bular Bhatti, a feudal lord of the jagir of present-day Nankana Sahib famous for gifting land to Guru Nanak. # Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti, Pakistani politician from Jhang. # Raja Aziz Bhatti, a Pakistani military officer who was awarded posthumously Pakistan's highest military decoration the Nishan-e-Haider. # Raja Muhammad Sarwar Bhatti, a Pakistani military officer from Gujar Khan district who was awarded posthumously the Nishan-e-Haider. # Shaitan Singh Bhati, Indian military officer who was awarded India's highest military decoration, the Param Vir Chakra. # Rana Shabbir Sharif Bhatti, a Pakistani military officer from Gujrat district who was awarded posthumously the Nishan-e-Haider. # Raja Shaukat Aziz Bhatti, a Pakistani politician who is a member of the

Provincial Assembly of the Punjab The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani provinces, Pakistani province of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, which is located in Lahore, the provincial capital. It was established under ...

since 2024. #

Rai Muhammad Murtaza Iqbal Rai Muhammad Murtaza Iqbal is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till January 2023. Personal life Iqbal was born in a Muslim Rajput family with roots in Raikot, in Indian Punjab's ...

, a Pakistani politician from Sahiwal who had been a member of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

from August 2018 till January 2023. # Rai Hassan Nawaz, a Pakistani politician from Sahiwal who has been a member of the

since February 2024. # Muhammad Khan Bhatti, a Pakistani civil servant who serves in BPS-22 grade as the Secretary, Punjab Assembly. # Rai Ibrahim Bhatti, the last ruler of the state of Kapurthala from 1773 to 1779. # Lakhi Rai Bhatti, a ruler of Khairpur (now called Khairpur Tamewali), in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. # Zahid Mehmood, Pakistani Cricketer from Dadu.

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