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{{hatnote|For the [[Chitpavan]] surname, see [[Phatak (surname)]].}}
{{infobox ethnic group
| poptime =
| region2 = [[Shikohabad]]
| langs = [[Hindi language|Hindi]], [[Brajbhasha]]
| rels = [[Hindu]]
| related =
| group = Ahir
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| footnotes = <ref name="Lucia Michelutti">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OIUAQAAIAAJ&q=phatak+ahir | title=The Vernacularisation of Democracy: Politics, Caste, and Religion in India Volume 1 of Exploring the political in South Asia | publisher=Routledge, Original from the University of California | author=Lucia Michelutti | year=2008 | pages=101 | isbn=9780415467322}}</ref>
}}
'''Phatak''' or '''Phaatak''' is a [[Yaduvanshi]] clan or a sub-caste of the Indian [[Ahir]]-[[Yadava|Yadav]] community.The Mahaban(mathura) fort was originally built by Rana Katera, the ancestor of the fatak aheer. He also built the fort of Jalesar. [6]

==Origin==
Locally in [[Braj]] region, Which includes [[Mathura]], [[Shikohabad]], [[Jalesar]], [[Agra]], [[Hathras]], [[Aligarh]], [[Etah]], [[Mainpuri]] and
[[Farrukhabad]] districts of [[Uttar Pradesh]],<ref name="Lucia Michelutti00">{{cite web | url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2106/1/U613338.pdf | title=Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a North Indian town | publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science University of London | work=PhD Thesis Social Anthropology | date=2002 | accessdate=20 May 2015 | author=Lucia Michelutti | pages=46}}</ref> Phataks are Yadav(Ahir).<ref name="Lucia Michelutti0">{{cite web | url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2106/1/U613338.pdf | title=Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a North Indian town | publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science University of London | work=PhD Thesis Social Anthropology | date=2002 | accessdate=21 May 2015 | author=Lucia Michelutti | pages=152}}</ref>
The Phatak clan claim to be descended from Digpal, Raja of [[Mahaban]], an Ahir.<ref name="mainpuri#">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=exg6AAAAMAAJ&q=%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%95+%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0 | title=Mainapurī janapada kā rājanaitika itihāsa: svantantratā saṅgrāmoṃ kī amara gāthā | publisher=Śuklā Prakāśana Original from the University of Michigan | author=Cintāmaṇi Śukla | year=1977}}</ref>{{qn|date=September 2019}}

The legend goes as :
"Once the Raja of Chittor was invaded by the emperor of Delhi. One out of the 12 gates (Phataks) of the city resisted. To commemorate the signal of bravery of the guard Khatera Ahir of the 12 gate, the king issued a decree that they and their descendants should forever be known after the name of Phatak.<ref name="Lucia Michelutti0"/>

==History==
The Phatak prince Bijay Singh took possession of Samohan Chaurasi area, dispossessing the [[Mewati]]s owners of the land in 1106 (samvat era). After the capture of ''Samohan Chaurasi'' area, the Phataks proceeded towards [[Yamuna]] river, displacing aborigines they established themselves in the whole Shikohabad Pargana.<ref name="Lucia Michelutti000">{{cite web | url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2106/1/U613338.pdf | title=Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a North Indian town | publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science University of London | work=PhD Thesis Social Anthropology | date=2002 | accessdate=20 May 2015 | author=Lucia Michelutti | pages=152}}</ref>

The evidences show that [[female infanticide]] was practiced commonly among [[Chauhan]] [[Rajput]]s and Phatak [[Yadav]]s.<ref name="Raj Kumar">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7SQW69LLSIC&q=Phatak+ahirs&pg=PA213 | title=Essays on Social Reform Movements | publisher=Discovery Publishing House | author=Raj Kumar | year=2004 | pages=213 | isbn=9788171417926}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sxhAtCflwOMC&q=Phatak+ahirs&pg=PA396 | title=A Comprehensive History of Medieval India: Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century | publisher=Pearson Education India | author=Farooqui Salma Ahmed | year=2011 | pages=396 | isbn=9788131732021}}</ref> In 1865, Mr. Colvin observed census of the Chauhan and Phatak villages in [[Mainpuri]] and found six villages without a single female infant.<ref name="Subodh Kapoor">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mc6C5dVHbGAC&q=ahirs+in+mainpuri&pg=PA4506 | title=The Indian Encyclopaedia: Mahi-Mewat | publisher=Genesis Publishing Pvt Ltd | author=Subodh Kapoor | year=2002 | pages=4506 | isbn=9788177552720}}</ref>

==1857 Mutiny==
In the district [[Mainpuri]], no active participation was noticed as a national attempt at the subversion of government authority. British Officials later took the view that "there was no mass rising of the agricultural communities in Mainpuri but rather a struggle for the mastery between two land owning castes, the [[Chauhan]]s and the Ahirs."<ref name="pati">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZH0MAQAAMAAJ&q=%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0+%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80 | title=The 1857 Rebellion | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Biswamoy Pati | year=2007 | pages=200 | isbn=9780195690767}}</ref><ref name="CUP">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2u88AAAAIAAJ&q=ahir+mainpuri&pg=PA30 | title=elites in south asia | publisher=CUP Archive |author1=Edmund Leach |author2=S.N. Mukherjee | year=1970 | pages=30}}</ref><ref name="rebel">{{cite book|last1=Pati|first1=edited by Biswamoy|title=The 1857 rebellion|date=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New Delhi|isbn=9780195690767|page=200|edition=2. impr.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZH0MAQAAMAAJ|language=en}}</ref>

The Ahirs of Bharaul successfully repulsed Tez Singh while their Ahir caste brethren, Ram Ratan and Bhagwan Singh of Rampur Village kept the whole Mustafabad in a state of rebellion and fought against British rule.<ref name="CUP1">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2u88AAAAIAAJ&q=ahir+mainpuri&pg=PA30 | title=elites in south asia | publisher=CUP Archive |author1=Edmund Leach |author2=S.N. Mukherjee | year=1970 | pages=31}}</ref><ref name="rebel"/>

==See also==
*[[Ahir clans]]

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Ahir clans |state=collapsed}}

[[Category:British Indian history]]
[[Category:Ahir]]

Phatak - Revision history

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