Bhatra

Kamal Bhatra, age 52, New York, NY View Details

Cities: Okemos MI Possible Relatives: Champa Hasso Bhatia, Hasso Chellaram Bhatia, Michelle Marie Bhatia

Junaid Amin Bhatra, age 47, Westford, MA View Details

Cities: Okemos MI Possible Relatives: Champa Hasso Bhatia, Hasso Chellaram Bhatia, Michelle Marie Bhatia

Manmohan S Bhatia, age 39, Houston, TX View Details

Locations: Langham Creek TX, Houston TX, Cypress TX Possible Relatives: Devinder S Bhatia, Gurmit Singh Bhatia

Mandeep K Bhatia, age 38, Houston, TX View Details

Locations: Langham Creek TX, Houston TX, Cypress TX Possible Relatives: Devinder S Bhatia, Gurmit Singh Bhatia

Bhatraju

Bhatraju is an Indian caste of Telugu-speaking poets, ballad reciters, panegyrists, and religious musicians. They are primarily found in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and also in smallerread more... numbers in the neighbouring states like Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. They are also known as Bhatt Murtis or Bhatrajulu or Rai Bhats or Bhat Rajah or Brahma Kshatriya or simply Rajus. The Bhatrajus were originally a caste of court bards, poets, eulogists, and reciters of family genealogy and tradition. After the fall of indigenous kingdoms, they migrated downward to South Indian regions in the search of livelihood. During the reign of Kakatiya rulers, they were allowed to integrate into the society by contributing their literary knowledge of Sanskrit. Eventually they instilled pious positions by devoting their duties as temple coordinators, priests and they switched to singing religious songs, poetry and praises of richer land lords and performing their respective Dharmic traditions in wedding and other auspicious occasions. They use Raju as their caste title.They hold the primary Brahman Gothras like Bharadwaja, Kashyapa, Athreyasa, Srivasta etc. It is one of the few Brahmanic castes that has maintained the continuity of Sacred Thread called as Upanayanam. The Bhatrajus wear the sacred thread like the Brahmins and are well versed in sacred literature. They call themselves Rajus (Rajputs) claiming half-decent from ancient Kshatriya clans. Bhatrajus are classified under the Other Backward Classes in most states of Southern India, with less than 500,000 living in AP/TS regions today.read less...

Bhatra, Bangladesh

Bhatra is a village in Barisal District in the Barisal Division of southern-central Bangladesh.

Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party is one of two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress. It is the current ruling political party of the Republic of India, having been so siread more...nce 2014. The BJP is a right-wing party, and its policy has historically reflected Hindu nationalist positions. It has close ideological and organisational links to the much older Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). As of 2019, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies and is by far the world's largest party in terms of primary membership, with the second largest party, the Chinese Communist Party, having about half the registered members of the BJP.read less...

Bhatra - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia. • sikhiwiki.org

Bhatra is a term for a priestly caste in Hinduism, but also a community of Sikhs with Saraswat Brahmin heritage. Learn about their ancient origins, migration, religious oppression, and conversion to Sikhism.

History of Bhatra Sikhs - Gurdwara Bhat Sikh Council UK • gbscuk.co.uk

Learn about the origin, migration and establishment of Bhatra Sikhs, a priest community that converted to Sikhism from Hinduism. Find out how Bhatra Sikhs arrived in UK and USA and how they built Gurdwaras there.

Bhāts - Wikipedia • wikipedia.org

The Bhatra Sikhs (also known as Bhat Sikhs) are a sub-group within the Sikhs who originated from the bards of the time of Guru Nanak. [15] According to William Hewat McLeod, the Bhatra Sikhs have an "extremely small" population and they are from some villages of the Gurdaspur and Sialkot districts of the Punjab region.

India's Tribal Communities- The Bhattra Tribe of Chhattisgarh • shaan.academy

Bhatra tribe has three divisions, namely the Pit, Amnait and San Bhatras, the Pit subdivision being the highest. Members of these three divisions will eat with each other before marriage. Further, the Bhatra tribe also has the usual set of exogamous clans that are named after animals and plants.

Bhatra Community - POLITICS | LIFESTYLE - SIKH SANGAT • sikhsangat.com

The Bhatra community is by no means a small community they are vast in numbers both in India and the UK but scattered densley throughout the UK. In areas that are not traditional Asian or Sikh areas. ie they mostly live in white middle class areas of Glasgow, Edindburgh, Bristol, Ipswitch Cardif, Southampton, Portmouth, Newcastle, Liverpool ...

Bhatra Sikhs - Wikiwand • wikiwand.com

Origins. Eleanor Nesbitt and William Hewat McLeod suggested that they are a caste. [2] [3] Many academics suggests that the word Bhatra is a diminutive form of the word Bhat which comes from Sanskrit meaning a "bard or panegyrist".Dharam Singh writes that in the Sikh tradition Bhatts are poets with the personal experience and vision of the spirituality of the Sikh Gurus whom they eulogize and ...

Practices in Sikhism Bhatra and Ramgarhia gurdwaras - BBC • bbc.co.uk

Bhatra and Ramgarhia gurdwaras. In his teachings, Guru Nanak close Guru Nanak Guru Nanak was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Gurus, who lived from 1469 to 1539. rejected the idea ...

Bhottada - Wikipedia • wikipedia.org

The Bhottada (also known as Dhotada, Bhotra, Bhatra, Bhattara, Bhotora, Bhatara) [2] is an ethnic group found mainly in many districts of Odisha and Chhattisgarh. [3] The 2011 census showed their population to be around 450,771. They are classified as a Scheduled Tribe by the Indian government. [1]

The Bhatts (or Bhatrai Sikhs) - Sikh Sampardaaye Section ... • sikhawareness.com

I come from the batra community, and all this bedbi is correct in a few gurdwara here and there but not in all. bhatra are stereotyped by fanatic jatts. but dont put down a whole community because of a handfull of fools. The same goes for are community, the jatts are seen as lufanga and there women lufungia, but this is not true its a stereotype.