Malhotra

Malhotra (Hindi: मलहोत्रा, Punjabi: ਮਲਹੋਤਰਾ) is a Khatri family surname originating from the Punjab region of the Indian Subcontinent, today straddling India and Pakistan and is common with both Hindu and Sikh families.

The Malhotras belong to the Kshatriya Varna (the princely military order in Vedic society).

Along with the Khanna and Kapur clans, the Mehra/Malhotra clan forms the Dhai Gar(which means 2 1/2 families), in the Kshatriya Khatri clan hierarchy.

Origin

In current times, the Malhotra clan, in line with their Indo-Scythian origins, plays a prominent role in the Indian Armed Forces, where they form the top brass in the Indian Army and to a lesser extent the Navy and Air Force.

Malhotra and Mehrotra

Mehrotra is a modified form of Malhotra , which is itself an extended form of Mehra, meaning of the sun (Mihr or Mitra).

The Malhotras are from the Punjab and the Mehrotras are from the state of Uttar Pradesh. The Mehrotra clan along with the Tandon, Kapur/Kapoor and Sethi clans form the small Khatri community of Uttar Pradesh. The Tandon, Kapur and Sethi clans are also found among Punjabi Khatris.

Prominent Malhotras

ADVOCATES

Parkash Chandra Malhotra Gold Medelist MALLB punjab university joint punjab haryana.

ARMED FORCES

• General Om Prakash Malhotra PVSM, 13th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, former Governor of Punjab, Administrator of Chandigarh
• General J. C. Malhotra, (retd) PVSM, AVSM, VSM
• Lt. General Yash Malhotra AVSM
• Lt. General S P Malhotra PVSM
• Lt. General S.L. Malhotra, PVSM, AVSM, Director General National Cadet Corps
• Major General Surindur Kumar Malhotra, PVSM, MGASC, Western Command
• Major General Raj Krishan Malhotra AVSM
• Major General I C Malhotra
• Major General Deepak Malhotra, Commandant of the Army Selection Centre South
• Surg Vice Admiral S Malhotra, Director General Medical Service (Navy)
• Rear Admiral H C Malhotra
• Vice Admiral Vijay Malhotra
• Rear Admiral M.S. Malhotra
• Air Vice Marshal Surjit Singh Malhotra VSM AVSM

GOVERNMENT

• Dr Sardari Lal Malhotra, Former C.M.O. Indian Western Railways.
• Advocate Raj Kumar Malhotra Former Seretary Vidhan Sabha Haryana.
• Professor Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Politician; Deputy head of the BJP, Chairman Parliament Public Accounts Committee
• Justice H.R.Malhotra; Justice Delhi High Court
• R. N. Malhotra; Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Executive Director IMF
• S.G.Malhotra ; Secretary-General Lok Sabha (Parliament)
• Subhash Malhotra; Director General of Police, President of the Indian Police Service Officers’ Association (IPSOA)
• Jagmohan Malhotra, former Cabinet Minister for Tourism and Culture, Governor Of Kashmir, Lt. Governor of Delhi
• Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra
• Justice Ashok Kumar Malhotra, Supreme Court of India
• Ravindra Nath Malhotra, Chairman of the Indian Railway Board
• Ms Nisha Malhotra, Chief Commissioner Delhi Zone
• VK Malhotra, Commissioner of Police, Kanpur
• S C Malhotra Bombay Police Commissioner
• Ajai Malhotra, India's Ambassador to the UN
• Jayant Malhotra MP, Rajya Sabha

ACADEMIA

• Professor Vivek Malhotra  ; Professor of Biology, University of California
• Professor Yudhishtar (Malhotra) ; former Head of the English Department University of Delhi, Governor Hindu College
• Dr Yogesh Malhotra ; Founding Chairman of the BRINT Institute
• Paven Malhotra, Senior Editor of the Harvard International Review
• Prof RC Malhotra former Director IIT, Indian Institutes of Technology
• Goldy Malhotra, Principal Modern School Vasant Vihar
• Dr (Col) OM Prakash Malhotra. Cardiologist Indian Army. Physician to Prime mInister Jawahar Lal Nehru.

BUSINESS

• Arjun Malhotra, CEO Techspan and founder HCL
• Satish Chandra Malhotra: Industrialist; Chairman Empire Industries
• Harbans Lal Malhotra; Industrialist
• Sanjay Mehrotra ; Founder and President of SanDisk Corporation
• Arjun Malhotra. CEO, Headstrong
• Vikram Malhotra, head of McKinsey & Co.'s New York office
• Dina Nath Malhotra; Publisher, President Emeritus - Federation of Indian Publishers
• Romi Malhotra; Managing Director DELL India
• T K Malhotra Chairman, Automobile Association
• Vikram Malhotra, Managing Director Credit Suisse Bank
• {http://www.manishmalhotra.in Manish Malhotra, Designer]
• {http://www.malhotras.net Robin Malhotra, Avaya Inc.]

OTHER

• Manish Malhotra; Fashion Designer
• Mrs S Malhotra - former Maharani of Indore
• Master Tara Singh (Malhotra) ; Freedom fighter
• Manny Malhotra ; Pro Ice Hockey player, Center for Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers
• Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra, Astronaut

References

• Hewitt, J.F., The Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times in India, South-Western Asia and Southern Europe, Archibald Constable & Co., London, 1894, pp 481–487
• M.A. Sherring, Hindu Castes and Tribes as represented in Banares, 1872.
• Raja Vanvihari Kapur, The History of Khatris
• The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and Its Trade, 1550-1900 by Scott Cameron Levi.
• http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/governors.aspx
• Denzil Ibbetson, Edward MacLagan, H.A. Rose "A Glossary of The Tribes & Casts of The Punjab & North-West Frontier Province", 1911 AD, Page 501-526, Vol II
• Temple, R.C. "The Legends of The Panjab", 1884, Reprinted by Institute of Folk Heritage, Islamabd, 1981.
• http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98jul26/sunday/filmtv.htm
• Khatris An Elite Group http://www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00006053&channel=civic%20center&threshold=1&layout=0&order=0&start=120&end=129&page=1
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• Captain C.E. Luard (comp.), Chiefs and Leading Families in Central India. The Government of India, Calcutta, 1916.
• Tony McClenaghan, Indian Princely Medals: A record of the Orders, Decorations and Medals of the Indian Princely States. Lancer Publications, Spantech & Lancer, New Delhi, 1996.