Majithia family explained

The Majithia family, are a family of Shergill Jat sardars (chiefs) that originate from the region of Majitha in the Punjab.

History

The family is divided into three principle branches, the Dayal Singh branch, Surat Singh branch, and Mahtab Singh branch.[1] [2] Dayal Singh and Matab Singh were fifth cousins, whilst Surat Singh was considerably more distantly related to them. One had to go back fourteen generations from their generation to find a common relation between Surat Singh and the other two branches.[3] An early ancestor of the family was Madho, a Jat of the Gill clan, which the Sher-Gill clan is a derivative of.[4] [5] He founded the village of Madho-Jetha, later known as Majitha.[6] [7] Lepel H. Griffin in his work, Panjab Chiefs (1865), states that the Majithia family is the progeny of a certain Rana Dhar, who was the son of Sher-Gil (founder of the clan).[8]

Notable Members

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Dayal Singh branch

Surat Singh branch

Mahtab Singh branch

Notes and References

  1. Book: Brahmo Samaj and Dyal Singh Majithia. 1998. Madan. Gopal. Uppal Publishing House. New Delhi. 3. 8185565929.
  2. Book: Rekhi, Gurnam Singh . Sir Sundar Singh Majithia and His Relevance in Sikh Politics . Har-Anand Publications Pvt. Ltd. . 1999 . 15 . ...the small village of Majithia (near Amritsar)—which the family of Sir Sundar Singh, of Shergill clan among the Jat Sikhs—had adopted as their surname, could also be proud of its illustrious Sardars..
  3. Book: Griffin, Lepel Henry . The Panjab Chiefs: Historical and Biographical Notices of the Principal Families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi Divisions of the Panjab . Civil and Military Gazette Press . 1890 . 267.
  4. Book: Gill, Gurcharan Singh . Deeper Roots of the Gill, Bhatti, Sidhu, Brar, Tur, and Related Jat and Rajput Clans . Indian Family History Society . 2008 . Bunker . Janice Gill . 12 . CHAPTER 2: The Gill Clan - Section A. Indo-Scythian Origin . The descendants of Gillpal use the family surname 'Gill'. There are many sub-castes such as Sher-Gill, Jhalli-Gill and so on..
  5. Book: Duleh . Hoshiar Singh . Jatta da Itihas . Singh . Gurjant . Lahore Books Ludhiana . 2001 . 106–112 . pa . Preet . Pritam Singh . pa:ਜੱਟਾਂ ਦਾ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ . History of the Jats.
  6. Web site: Majithia . Satyajit Singh . Sandhu . Manleen . Singh . Sukhpal . 28 May 2013 . Oral history with Satyajit Singh Majithia . 2022-09-13 . The 1947 Partition Archive, Survivors and their Memories - Spotlight at Stanford - Stanford Libraries - Stanford University . en . Mado Jetha was the name that established Majitha, a place thirty odd miles from Amritsar..
  7. News: Walia . Varinder . 8 September 2005 . Special on the death anniversary of Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, which falls on September 9 - Majithia's virasat knows no sarhad . The Tribune India . Majitha is situated 16 kilometre to the north east of Amritsar. The town is connected with Amritsar by train and road. The town was founded by one Madho, a Jat of the Gill clan. He was 'jetha' (the eldest son) of his father and hence the place was 'Madho-Jetha'. The 'Madho-Jetha' subsequently got contracted into Majitha. Madho was thus the ancestor of Majithia Sardars, some of whom held high positions during the Sikh rule. It is believed that the forefathers of legendary Maharaja Ranjit Singh were closely associated with the town..
  8. Book: Griffin, Lepel H. . The Punjab Chiefs: historical and biographical notices of the principal families in the territories under the Punjab government. . T.C. McCarthy, Chronicle Press . 1865 . 353 . Shergil had four sons. The two youngest died without issue, but from the eldest Rana Dhar has descended the great house of Majitha.
  9. Book: Gill, Dawinder Singh . Majithia (Bansawali) Gharane Da Itihaas . B. Chattar Singh Jiwan Singh Amritsar . Punjabi . History of the House of Majithia (Genealogy).
  10. Web site: 19 December 2000. Desa Singh Majithia . 2022-09-13 . The Sikh Encyclopedia . en-US . Desa Singh died in 1832, and was succeeded in all his estates and honours by his eldest son, Lahina Singh Majithia..
  11. Web site: 19 December 2000. Lahina Singh Majithia . 2022-09-13 . The Sikh Encyclopedia . en-US.
  12. Web site: 19 December 2000. Ranjodh Singh Majithia . 2022-09-13 . The Sikh Encyclopedia . en-US.
  13. Web site: 19 December 2000. Dyal Singh Majithia . 2022-09-13 . The Sikh Encyclopedia . en-US.
  14. Web site: 19 December 2000. Surat Singh Majithia, Raja . 2022-09-13 . The Sikh Encyclopedia . en-US.
  15. Web site: 19 December 2000. Sundar Singh Majithia, Sardar Bahadur Sir . 2022-09-13 . The Sikh Encyclopedia . en-US.
  16. Web site: 19 December 2000. Surjit Singh Majitha . 2022-09-13 . The Sikh Encyclopedia . en-US.
  17. Web site: Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation Sher-Gil Sundaram Family . 2024-01-28 . en-US.
  18. Book: Anand, Mulk Raj . Amrita Sher-Gil . National Gallery of Modern Art . 1989 . 2, 7 . Page 2: Amrita Sher-Gil, born of Marie Antoinette, a cultured Hungarian mother, and Sardar Umrao Singh Gil, an aristocrat from the Majithia family of Amritsar..." Page 7: "Amrita Sher-Gil was brought to India by her parents at the age of eight and lived on the slopes of Summer Hill at Simla, and in Saraya a village in the Gorakhpur district of U.P., which was the Majithia family estate..
  19. Book: Anand, Mulk Raj . https://books.google.com/books?id=-zY2gTcG6yIC&dq=amrita+sher-gil+majithia+family&pg=PA113 . Splendours of Himachal Heritage . Abhinav Publications . 1997 . 978-81-7017-351-9 . Anand . Mulk Raj . 113 . en . Conversation with Amrita Sher-Gil . Mulk Raj Anand (speaking to Amrita Sher-Gil): 'You from Majithia family say so, you are more progressive than me!' Amrita replied: 'I hope so.'.
  20. Book: Nigam, Raj Kumar . Memoirs of Old Mandarins of India: The Administrative Change as the ICS Administrators Saw in India . Documentation Centre for Corporate & Business Policy Research . 1985 . From Dehra Dun, I came to Gorakhpur. After two more years at Gorakhpur, I was posted to Rae Bareli, perhaps, the most feudal district in the U.P. with Rajas, Ranas, and Sardars (Majithia family whom I had known from before through Amrita Sher-Gil, the painter who lived in Sardarnagar in Gorakhpur)..
  21. Web site: 19 December 2000. Mahtab Singh Majithia . 2022-09-13 . The Sikh Encyclopedia . en-US.

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