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Rise of Bhat Samaj.

Friends, let me tell you that many castes are associated with the word Bhat. The word Bhat or Bhat is very old, experts believe that the word Bhat or Bhat is mentioned in many Hindu scriptures. It is not only difficult but impossible to tell the history of Bhat caste because there are many controversies regarding Bhat caste at this time. Now it is very difficult to say whether Bhat is a word or a caste. There are many castes by the name of Bhat, such as Rao Bhat, Hindu Bhat, Brahma Bhat, Muslim Bhat, Muslim Bhat, Banjara Bhat or Bhati, Bhat etc. There are many such castes. But in all this the history of Rao Bhat is written to some extent. But there is no proven history of all other Bhat castes, so that it can be proved which Bhat or whose Bhat they are. Today, there is Bhaat of every caste in Rajasthan which praises. Like Bhats of Rajputs, Bhats of Jats, Bhats of Meghwals, Bhats of Gujjars etc. That is why it is very difficult for these people to make their caste certificate. One thing is common in all these Bhat castes, that all these Bhat castes believe that their forefathers used to praise kings, emperors or any particular caste or clan and used to write or remember their genealogy. So it is difficult to say when and how Bhat caste emerged.

(Special notice - I am only telling the history of puppet dancing caste here. So any other Bhat, Bhat, Bhatt, Bhati caste need not agree with this history. Because here I am not writing about any other society associated with the word Bhat)

Here, we will understand in detail how, when and where the rise of puppet-dancing caste community took place.

Emperor Harshvardhan, a great king of India, who was born in 590 AD and ruled till 647 AD. After Emperor Harshavardhana, many Rajput clans emerged in North West India and from about 7th century onwards Rajputana (presently Rajasthan) and some other states including Gujarat ruled till 12th century and this is called Rajput period.

So in the beginning Rajputana and Gujarat were ruled by the Gurjara and Pratihara Rajput clans. After this, the Chalukya Raj dynasty ruled, then the Chauhans ruled, and in the same way many Rajput dynasties ruled Rajputana and other states. The main center of Rajputs was Rajputana (Rajasthan). Some people used to brag about the works done by the Rajput kings, war victories in nearby and distant states. who by his wonderful arts Told through dance, music, acting or drama, physical acrobatics, puppet dance, poems and stories. These people later got divided into different castes. Example - like nut caste. Now nut is not a caste, it is an art. Which is one of the famous 64 arts of India. which is like this - Lord Krishna was born proficient in the following 64 arts, which were as follows – 1- dance 2- Instrumental - playing different types of instruments 3- Singing Vidya - Singing. 4- Drama or Dramatic Art - Various gestures and acting 5- Indrajal - Magic 6- Creating drama narrative etc. 7- Fragrant things- making perfume, oil etc. 8- Make up with flower ornaments 9- The knowledge of keeping the Betal etc under control 10- Children's Games 11- Knowledge to win 12- Mantravidya 13- Knowing omens and bad omens, telling auspiciousness in answering questions 14- Cutting gems in different sizes 15- Making many types of Matrika Yantra 16- Creating sign language 17-Tying the water. 18- Making vines 19- Making the gift of worship with rice and flowers. (Decorate rice, barley etc. things and flowers dyed with many colors on the occasion of God worship or other auspicious occasions) 20- Making flower beds. 21- Speaking the dialects of parrot-mynah etc. - Through this art speaking like parrot-mynah or they are taught to speak. 22- Medicine of trees 23- Method of fighting sheep, cock, quail etc. 24- Method of elevation 25- The workmanship of building houses etc. 26- Making rugs, carpets etc. 27- Carpentry 28- Making bandage, cane, arrow etc. means making seat, chair, bed etc. with cane etc. things. 29- The art of making different types of food items, that is, the art of making vegetables, juices, sweet dishes, curry etc. in many ways. 30- Deeds of sleight of hand 31- Wear whatever you want 32- Making different types of beverages 33- Gaming 34- Knowledge of all verses 35- The science of hiding or changing clothes 36- Attraction of distant humans or objects 37- Making clothes and jewelry 38- Making garlands etc. 39- Showing strange achievements means using such mantras or mixing herbs and making such things or medicines which weaken the enemy or cause harm. 40-Making of flower ornaments for ears and braids – Interweaving flowers by giving them the form of ornaments to decorate the braids of women. 41- Making puppets, dancing 42- Making idols etc. 43- Solving Riddles 44- Needle work means sewing clothes, roughing, embroidery. 45 - Hair cleaning skills 46- Tell the thing of the fist or the thing of the mind 47- Knowledge of the language of many countries 48 - Understanding of Malechha-Kavyas - The art of writing and understanding such signs which can be understood only by the one who knows them. 49 - Examination of metals like gold, silver and gems like diamonds and emeralds 50 - Making gold-silver etc. 51 - Recognizing the color of gems 52- Identification of mines 53- Painting 54- Coloring teeth, clothes and organs 55- Bed-composition 56- Making floor of gems means inlaying pearls and gems in some part of the floor of the house. 57- Diplomacy 58- The cleverness of teaching the texts 59- Finding out new things 60- Problem solving 61- Knowledge of all cells 62- To create a cut in the mind means to complete the missed step or step in any verse etc. with the mind. 63 - Cheating 64- Making ear leaves means preparing many types of ear ornaments including conch shell, ivory.

Out of these 64 arts, the 4th art is Naat Kala or Natya Kala, which has been going on since ancient times.

Those who used this art later on Nuts got converted into caste and those people started calling themselves from the nut caste. Now there are two variations in the nut caste - one is nut and the other is Raj nut. The one who is a nut could show his tricks anywhere, but the one who is a raj nut, he used to show tricks only in front of the royal family. Now even at present there are two communities Hindu Nat and Muslim Nat. This change has come during the period of Mughal rule, I will elaborate further on this topic.

This is how different castes emerged. As there are 64 arts, among them - 1 first art - dance or dancing 2 second art - instrument or playing 3rd Art - Singing or Singing And the 41st art is puppet making and dancing. Those who knew how to make puppets and knew how to make them dance. They were called puppet threaders at that time, because the threads or threads of the puppet are in the hands of the puppeteer, that is why they were called puppet threaders. So all these people lived like a group or a community and used to do their work together. All these artists who sing, play music, dance, puppet dance, acrobatics or physical feats were in the same group and performed their art in their states or foreign states on the orders of the king and that became their main work. had gone With time, some people left the west and started going towards east and south India and started living there and living their life. But the puppeteers did not go out of Rajputana. Even if he used to go sometime, he used to come back. Then due to this puppetry was called Rajasthani art because there were no puppeteers anywhere else at that time. Puppet narrators lived in Rajputana and by about 9th century, they had formed their own separate group or community. In which those people were included who used to sing songs, play instruments, tell stories, couplets, and poems, make puppets, make puppets dance, etc. By the 10th century, these people had spread all over Rajputana with their small groups. Time played such a game that whatever work a person used to do or was doing at that time became his identity and later it became his caste. Now all these artists got their name according to their art. Like those who do farce or drama came to be called nuts and this became their caste. This is how many castes were formed and it is still today. And by the 12th century, puppeteers or facilitators were also called Bhat. Because at that time all the kings in Rajputana used to have Rao Bhat and it is still there today. This Rao Bhat used to be with the kings and used to brag about them. Used to keep records of generations of kings and used to account for their politics, war policy, war victory. And this work is going on generation after generation. So Rao Bhat used to do this work at a high level. But because the puppeteers also used to tell the subjects through their art that which king did what and how. All these things were told through puppets in an amusing way. That is why puppeteers in Rajputana came to be called Bhat and thus the Bhat society emerged in the 12th century. Then this time changed and after the 12th century, the rule of Rajput kings started ending in Rajputana and foreign aggression and Islamic rule started ruling. Due to non-rule of Rajput kings in Rajputana, the people of Bhat community started going out of Rajputana and started living in some way by showing their art. The Mughal period started from 1526 AD and things changed a lot. What can we talk about if things have changed so much. As the influence of Islam had increased so much in the Mughal rule that no one could escape from it.

Things became more difficult after 1758 AD when Aurangzeb became the ruler. At that time something happened, the result of which some people are suffering even today. And today's government is also not doing anything. So something happened that during the reign of Aurangzeb some communities of artists had adopted Islam. And now he was trying to follow Islam. There can be 3 main reasons behind this. One is that during Aurangzeb's rule, no one should disturb him thinking that he is a Hindu or he should not face any problem. Secondly, now it was the rule of the Mughals, so in the greed of earning more money, we are also Muslims, that's why we will be allowed to show art in the court. They must have felt that by becoming a Muslim, they would be safe.

And the third reason is that at that time Aurangzeb had forced many societies and people to convert to Islam and killed those who did not convert to Islam. So maybe for this reason he would have adopted Muslim religion. लेकिन इस बात से ज्यादा फ़र्क नहीं पड़ा | जो हिन्दू कलाकार थे वो और जो अब मुस्लिम बन चुके कलाकार थे वो सब समान स्थित में ही थे |

Although some Kalkars had adopted Muslim religion under compulsion, but still there were works like marriage between the two communities Muslim artist community and Hindu artist community. Now this change of religion was not done by any one community, but it happened in all those artist communities who were influenced by Islam and compulsion. And these people or communities are still there today. That is why today there are many castes which are common in both Hindu and Muslim religions and there are many similarities not only in their caste but also in gotra, customs, name, surname, language etc. Examples like - Hindu Nut and Muslim Nut, Hindu Bhat and Muslim Bhati etc. Not only this but many new castes have also been formed which believe in Islam and all of them are artists. Now whether they are singers, instrumentalists etc. but it is not my subject to tell about them. There are many such castes who adopted the religion of Islam, but the people of Islam never gave them the status they were thinking or wanted.

Even after the change of religion, there used to be marriage and kinship between the two artist communities because both were basically Hindus. That is why many Muslim customs also consider Hindu Bhat caste. And many Hindu customs are followed by people of the Muslim Bhat caste. Because there was an exchange of culture.

So in this way Bhat caste emerged, then two communities were divided into Hindu and Muslim and more gotras were added to them. Now further we will know only about the Hindu Bhat caste. Which completely believes and follows Hindu religion.

Note - Bhat caste originated in 12th century i.e. about 900 years ago. Because today is 2023 and 21st century is going on.

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