List of Khatris
Following is a list of notable members of the Khatri community in India.
Historical figures
Sikh Empire
- Hari Singh Nalwa (1791–1837), the Commander-in-Chief of the Khalsa army of the Sikh Empire under Ranjit Singh.[1]
- Dewan Mokham Chand (1785-1814), General of the Khalsa Army under Ranjit Singh[2][3]
- Diwan Sawan Mal Chopra, Governor of Lahore and Multan, Commander in the Khalsa Army[4]
- Diwan Mulraj Chopra (1814–1851), Governor of Multan, leader of a rebellion against the British which led to the Second Anglo-Sikh War[4][5]
- Sardar Hukma Singh, Governor of Attock and Hazara, Jagirdar of Udoki, Roras, Sialkot, Sayadgarh [6][7]
Bardhaman Raj
- Bijay Chand Mahtab GCIE, KCSI, IOM (19 October 1881 – 29 August 1941) was the ruler of Bardhaman Raj, Bengal in British India from 1887 till his death in 1941[8][9][10]
- Uday Chand Mahtab of Bardhaman Raj, K.C.I.E., (14 July 1905 – 10 October 1984) was the last ruler of Burdwan Raj, who ruled from 1941 until 1955[11]
Dallewalia Misl
- Sardar Gulab Singh Khatri, founder of the Dallewalia Misl, an 18th century sovereign Sikh state [12][13]
Hindu martyr
- Haqiqat Rai, beheaded at the age of 14 for refusing to convert to Islam by Governor Zakariya Khan. Puri stood up against his classmates ridiculing Hindu dieites.[14] In 1782, a poet named Aggra (aka Agra or Aggar Singh) wrote a Punjabi var (ballad) titled Haqiqat Rai di Var.[15] Maharaja Ranjit Singh particularly revered Haqiqat Rai as a Hindu Martyr[16]
Captain Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra awardee
Indian military
- Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra awardee during the 1999 Kargil War.[17] Captain Batra assaulted the enemy position along a narrow ridge and engaged the enemy in a fierce hand–to-hand fight and killed five enemy soldiers at point blank range. Despite sustaining grave injuries, he crawled towards the enemy and hurled grenades clearing the position with utter disregard to his personal safety, leading from the front, he rallied his men and pressed on the attack and achieved a near impossible military task in the face of heavy enemy fire.[18]
- General Pran Nath Thappar, 4th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army.[19]
- Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, 8th Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy.[19] He led the Indian Navy during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and successfully executed a naval blockade of both West and East Pakistan, helping India achieve an overwhelming victory during the war. [20]
- Air Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, Chief of Staff of the Indian Air Force.[19]
Indian independence activists
- Sukhdev Thappar, Indian freedom fighter, a senior member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, he participated in several actions alongside Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru, and was hanged by the British authorities on 23 March 1931 at the age of 23. He was a Thappar Khatri.[21]
- Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian freedom fighter, While studying in England, he assassinated William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a British official.[22]
- Prem Krishan Khanna, Indian freedom fighter and a member of the Hindustan Republican Association. One of the revolutionaries prosecuted for the Kakori Conspiracy.[23][24]
Religious figures
- Sikh Gurus[25]
- Guru Nanak Dev, Bedi
- Guru Angad Dev, Trehan
- Guru Amar Das, Bhalla
- Guru Ram Das, Sodhi
- Guru Arjan Dev, Sodhi
- Guru Har Gobind, Sodhi
- Guru Har Rai, Sodhi
- Guru Har Krishan, Sodhi
- Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sodhi
- Guru Gobind Singh, Sodhi
- Bhai Daya Singh, the first of the Panj Pyare (the initial members of the Khalsa), belonged to the Sobti clan of the Khatris.[26]
- Shiv Dayal Singh, Seth, founder of the Radhasoami religious movement.
Film and television
- Dev Anand, Indian actor[27]
- Kanika Kapoor, Indian singer[28]
- Prithviraj Kapoor, Indian actor[29]
- Raj Kapoor, Indian actor[30]
Politics
- Inder Kumar Gujral, 12th Prime Minister of India[31]
Business and finance
- Jagdish Chandra and Kailash Chandra Mahindra, founders of Mahindra & Mahindra. It is a part of the Mahindra Group, an Indian conglomerate[32][33]
- Mohan Singh Oberoi (15 August 1898 – 3 May 2002), he was the founder and chairman of the The Oberoi Group[32]
- Karam Chand Thapar, of the Thapar Group of companies.[33]
- Om Prakash Munjal, founder of Hero MotoCorp and Hero Cycles [32]
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- ^ Khan, Ansar Hussain (1999). The rediscovery of India : a new subcontinent. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. ISBN 81-250-1595-7. OCLC 63673538.
- ^ A history of the Sikhs Volume 1 page 217
- ^ a b Bobby Singh Bansal, Remnants of the Sikh Empire: Historical Sikh Monuments in India & Pakistan, Hay House, Inc, 1 December 2015
- ^ Dalrymple, William. Koh-i-noor : the history of the world's most infamous diamond. Anand, Anita (First U.S. ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-63557-076-2. OCLC 995630420.
- ^ Griffin, Sir Lepel Henry (1993). The Punjab Chiefs. Sang-e-Meel.
- ^ Griffith, Sir Leppel. The Punjab Chiefs, vol II. pp. 190–193.
- ^ "Burdwan Municipality". burdwanmunicipality.gov.in. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Imperial gazetteer of India: provincial series, 1909 – Volume 5 – Page 270
- ^ Historical Account of Burdwan Raj, A Tribute to Mahtab Family of Burdwan, Amarjit Singh Dhillon
- ^ "No. 37119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 1945. p. 2938.
- ^ Gupta, Hari Ram. History Of The Sikhs Vol. IV The Sikh Commonwealth Or Rise And Fall Of Sikh Misls. p. 52.
- ^ Dhavan, Purnima. (2011). When sparrows became hawks : the making of the Sikh warrior tradition, 1699-1799. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 61–63. ISBN 978-0-19-975655-1. OCLC 695560144.
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- ^ "'Yeh Dil Mange More': An ode to Captain Vikram Batra". dailybhaskar. 24 January 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ Cardozo, Ian (2003) Param Vir: Our Heroes in Battle. Roli Books Private Limited. pp 124-125
- ^ a b c Puri, Baij Nath (1988). The Khatris, a Socio-cultural Study. M.N. Publishers and Distributors. pp. 175–176.
- ^ "Admiral Sardarilal Nanda". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Mark of a martyr". The Tribune. 13 May 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ "Revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra (Tribute On Death Anniversary)". Dainik Jagran. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ Puri, Baij Nath. The Khatris, a Socio-cultural Study. M.N. Publishers and Distributors. p. 146.
- ^ Dr. Mehrotra N.C. Swatantrata Andolan Mein Shahjahanpur Ka Yogdan. p. 133.
- ^ W. H. McLeod (2009). The A to Z of Sikhism. Scarecrow Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-8108-6828-1.
- ^ Sangat Singh (2001). The Sikhs in History: a Millennium Study, with new afterwords. Uncommon Books. p. 71. ISBN 978-81-900650-2-3.
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- ^ "Remembering an icon: Prithviraj Kapoor". New Indian Express. 9 September 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
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