Bhatti

The Bhattis, also called Bhatis, were a Rajput clan of the Lunar lineage who claimed the Yadava descent of their ancestor Rao Bhati, a king remembered from the third century. Driven out of Mathura, the clan moved west into the Lakhi Jungle, where Rao Bhati's son Bhupat raised Bhatner fort in 295; the fort gave the surrounding country its name of Bhattiana.

The Bhatner Bhattis held the fort on the Delhi-Multan road. In 1398 Timur's army attacked, and the Bhatti rai Dul Chand resisted with Rajput and Muslim tribesmen fighting side by side until the fort was stormed, sacked and burned.

The clan rebuilt its power until Rao Jet Singh of Bikaner seized the fort in 1527. The Rathores of Bikaner took it again in 1805 and renamed it Hanumangarh, though Bhatti chiefs and villages remained across Punjab and Sindh.