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PANJAB CASTES
SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I.
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PANJAB CASTES 

SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. 

Being a reprint of the chapter on 
The Races, Castes and Tribes of 
the People in the Report on the 
Census of the Panjab published 
in '''1883''' by the late Sir Denzil 
Ibbetson, KCSI 

Lahore: 

Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab, 

1916. 
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=The Bhatia=

Caste No. 69

The Bhatias are a class of Rajputs,
originally coming from Bhatner, Jaisalmer, and the Rajputana desert, who
have taken to commercial pursuits. The name would seem to show that they
were Bhatis (called Bhatti in the Panjab) ; but be that as it may, their Rajput
origin appears to be unquestioned. They are numerous in Sindh and Gujarat
where they appear to form the leading mercantile element, and to hold the
place which the Aroras occupy higher up the Indus. They have spread into
the Panjab along the lower valleys of the Indus and Satluj, and up the whole
length of the Chenab as high as its debouchure into the plains, being indeed
most numerous in Sialkot and Gujrat. In this Province however they
occupy an inferior position, both in a social and in a mercantile sense. They
stand distinctly below the Khatri and perhaps below the Arora, and are for
the most part engaged in petty shop-keeping, though the Bhatias of Derah
Ismail Khan are describcd as belonging to a widely spread and enterprising
mercantile community.They are often supposed to be Khatris, and in
Jahlam they are said to follow the Khatri divisions of Bahri, Bunjahi, Dhai
ghar, Charzati, &c. They are very strict Hindus ; far more so than the other
trading classes of the Western Panjab ; and eschew meat and liquor. They
do not practise widow-marriage.

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