Johiya

The Johiya were a tribe of Punjab and northern Rajasthan, counted as Rajputs or Jats at different times. Between the eighth and twelfth centuries they were prominent in Jangladesh, the region later called Bikaner; from the thirteenth century many converted to Islam under the Sufi Baba Farid.

In the sixteenth century Fateh Khan Jat raided roads as far as Panipat and briefly took Multan from the Baloch. In 1768 Bikaner commissioned Johiya chief Kamruddin to retake Sirsa and Fatehabad from the Bhattis; a treaty at Jind in 1781 restored both to the Bhattis under Bikaner.