Punia

Punia was the chieftaincy of a Jat clan in Jangladesh, the dry country of northern Rajasthan, with a stronghold at Sidhmukh. The Poonia were among the clans that held land under their own chiefs and customary law.

In the second half of the fifteenth century Rao Bika, a younger son of Jodhpur's Rathore ruler, led a coalition of Rathores, Charans and Godara Jats into Jangladesh and captured the region. He founded Bikaner State in 1465; most Jat chiefs in Jangladesh accepted its suzerainty.