Malik (clan)

Malik or Malak is a gotra of Jats found in Pakistan and India.^[1]

The Malik Jats were originally called Ghatwal (or Gathwala); they proudly started calling themselves malik ("lord").^[2] They were zamindars (landowners) during the Mughal era.^[3]

Gathwala (गठवाला) Khap has 52 villages in Uttar Pradesh, Muzaffarnagar district.

Rai Bahadur Ghasiram Gathwala (Malik) of Ahulana (a village in Gohana in Sonipat district of Haryana) was the head of Gathwala Khap (Khap of Gathwala clan). He was known for his life standards & decisions. He was awarded with the title of 'Rai Bahadur' by Britishers. He had also participated in the First War of Independence in 1857. His ancestors included Raja Jatwan of Hansi who fought Kutbu-d din Aibak^[4] and Raja Halu Singh (son of Jatwan) who established the new Gathwala capital of Ahulana.

References[edit]

^ Kumar, Dharma; Desai, Meghnad; Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi; Raychaudhuri, Tapan, eds. (2010). The Cambridge economic history of India. Vol.2: C. 1757 - c. 2003 / ed. by Dharma Kumar with the editorial assistance of Meghnad Desai. Introduction by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. Vol. 2 (1st impr ed.). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-81-250-2731-7.
^ Stokes, Eric (1980). The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. p. 17, 293. ISBN 978-0-52129-770-7.
^ Raychaudhuri, Tapan; Habib, Irfan; Kumar, Dharma, eds. (1983). The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 2 (Reprinted ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 37, 70. ISBN 978-0-52122-802-2.
^ MAJOR H.G. RAVERTY (1881). Tabakat I Nasiri : A General History Of The Muhammadan Dynasties Of Asia Including Hindustan Volume 1. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[1] Kumar, Dharma; Desai, Meghnad; Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi; Raychaudhuri, Tapan, eds. (2010). The Cambridge economic history of India. Vol.2: C. 1757 - c. 2003 / ed. by Dharma Kumar with the editorial assistance of Meghnad Desai. Introduction by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. Vol. 2 (1st impr ed.). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-81-250-2731-7.

[2] Stokes, Eric (1980). The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. p. 17, 293. ISBN 978-0-52129-770-7.

[3] Raychaudhuri, Tapan; Habib, Irfan; Kumar, Dharma, eds. (1983). The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 2 (Reprinted ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 37, 70. ISBN 978-0-52122-802-2.

[4] MAJOR H.G. RAVERTY (1881). Tabakat I Nasiri : A General History Of The Muhammadan Dynasties Of Asia Including Hindustan Volume 1. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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