Godara

The Godara were a Jat clan whose chieftaincy lay in Jangladesh, the dry country around present-day Bikaner. Its seat was Shekhsar, where Pandu Godara was said to rule seven hundred villages.

In the fifteenth century a feud with neighbouring Jat chiefs led Pandu to seek Rao Bika, son of Rao Jodha of Marwar. Bika's coalition of Rathores, Charans and Godara Jats conquered Jangladesh, founding Bikaner, whose city was established in 1488. Pandu ceded his lands to the Rathores, bringing the Godara under the new state.