Pugal

Pugal is a desert stronghold northwest of Bikaner, associated with a branch of the Bhati Rajputs. Its chiefs ruled a tract of Jangladesh on the routes towards the Indus country. Relations with the Rathore rulers of Bikaner included both alliance and submission; Rao Bika married a daughter of the Bhati chief of Pugal. The fort and its wells gave the settlement a position of importance in a landscape of sparse rainfall and long distances between inhabited places.