Thattai Bhatia is a clan of Sindhi Bhatia Rajputs which was once settled in Sindh, in what is now Pakistan, but dispersed around the time of the Partition of India in 1947.Straight Talk: The grand old man, by Subramani Dharmarajan, Senior Reporter, Gulf News, September 11, 2008 The Thattai Sindhi Bhatia community derives its name from the Thatta city of Sindh. Pre-independence, in 1880s the Bhatias were considered amongst the top three Indian communities undertaking trading relations with Middle East countries like Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and whole of Gulf.India’'s ‘Look West’ Policy and Its Impact on India, GCC Relations, International Politics, Vol. 3, No. VI, Summer & Autumn 2010, Ginu Zacharia Oommen, Khurshid Imam, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityThe Global World of Indian Merchants, 1715 to 1947, Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama, by Claude Markovits, Cambridge University Press Sindhi Bhatias were dominant in Muscat, Doha and Bandar Abbas.
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