Malik or Malak is a gotra of Jats found in Haryana, India.
The Malik Jats were originally called Ghatwal (or Gathwala); they proudly started calling themselves malik ("lord").[1] They were zamindars (landowners) during the Mughal era.[2]
References
- ↑ 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.