Origins
People named Bhat were said to be a clan of Brahmin descents of intellectual Vedic and Dardic saints that inhabited the banks of the Saraswati River, which ran dry around 2000 BC. This forced the community to migrate to Kashmir in search of "ultimate truth". Up to about the beginning of the 13th century, Islam became the dominant religion in Kashmir as a large number of Kashmiri Pandits were converted to Islam.
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