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This is not in any way about caste . It is simply to widen the knowledge and understanding, whilst also rectifying many misconception of the Bhat community. In addition to help explain the wider issues surrounding the place in History of the Bhatra Sikh community I think there is some lack knowledge of the Ethnic origin of the Bhat community in the UK due to people’s lack of awareness of the community. Or not much data compiled on. Although the original Bhatras were Saraswat Brahmins Hindus, that was just the beginning of them as a community. The original Brahmin Bhats were in fact only small in number and constitute a small percentage of Bhat People as a whole. . As is the traditional Brahmin occupation they are involved with religious duties hence why Bhats were involved in running the historical Sikh temples in India and all religious duties regarding those matters. Even now most temples are run by the Bhat Community in india. One of their duties of these early Bhats was to spread Sikhism in Punjab and the surrounding areas. They immediately began converting the mostly indigenous Punjabi Hindus who were in the Punjab at the time to Sikhism. This was mostly in the Amritsar/Sialkot/Lahore. The people they converted tended to be from Aryan warriors clans as these were the inhabitants of the Punjab during this time. Also Sikhism needed Warriors to defend the religion at the time so Bhats naturally went for he strong warrior Punjabis groups to join them.When these people became Sikhs they naturally became members of the Bhat community and also brought along with them their surnames. This is the reason that Bhats contain Rajput/Gujjar/Khatri surenames. Over the time they gradually lost their original Brahmin traditions of spreading the religion and became a distinctive community in their own right. Bhatras today would rather be associated with their true Sikh warrior origins,with their warrior heritage of the respective clans in fighting for Sikhism. .