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 later began calling themselves malik ("lord").[2] They were zamindars (landowners) during the Mughal era.[3] The Gathwala (गठवाला) Khap comprises 52 villages in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh.
References
- ^ 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. pp. 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.