Malik (clan)

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Malik or Malak is a gotra of Jats found in Pakistan and India. [1] The Malik Jats were originally called Ghatwal (or Gathwala [2] ); they later began calling themselves malik ("lord"). [3] They were zamindars (landowners) during the Mughal era. [4]

References

  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. ↑ Indian Journal of Physical Anthropology and Human Genetics. Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, U.P. 2005. p. 110. They are the largest group in northwest India, having various clans and more than 500 gotras. The main gotras are Maliks (Ghatwalla)
  3. ↑ Stokes, Eric (1980). The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. pp. 17, 293. ISBN   978-0-52129-770-7.
  4. ↑ 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.
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