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As per historian W. H. McLeod and Louis Fenech, Khatri is a Punjabi form of the word Kshatriya. [37] Peter Hardy and A. R. Desai also agree that Khatri is derived from Kshatriya. Despite the etymology, Hardy says that Khatri is "a mercantile class" and Desai says the Khatris were "traditionally tradesmen and government officials".
Sultan Muzaffar Shah I, the founder of the Gujarat Sultanate, a Muslim Khatri kingdom and its ruling Muzaffarid Dynasty. He was a Tanka Khatri convert to Islam. [9]Maharaja Bijay Chand Mahtab Kapoor GCIE, KCSI, IOM, with origins from Kotli, Sialkot was the ruler of Bardhaman Raj in Bengal from 1887 till his death in 1941.
The Khukhrain or Khokhrain [1] is a sub-group composed of eight clans of the Khatri caste that originally hailed from the areas of the Salt Range. History The Khukhrains spread over Khushab , Dhune Kheb, Chakwal , Pind Dadan Khan , Peshawar , Nowshera and Lahore .
People belonging to a particular gotra may not be of the same caste (as there are many gotras which are part of different castes) in the Hindu social system. However, there is a notable exception among matrilineal Tulu speakers, for whom the lineages are the same across the castes. People of the same gotra are generally not allowed to marry.
Kohli is a Khatri clan from Delhi. The clan belongs to Khukhrain family of the Punjabi Khatris, along with other subcastes: Anand, Talwar , Sahni/Sawhney, Sethi , Ghai, Bhasin , Sabharwal , Chadha , and Suri.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item ... Khattar is a surname found among the Khatri of India and Pakistan. [1] [2] Notable people ...
According to the legend, some of the descendants migrated to Sanaudh where the clan chieftain married the daughter of the king and had a son named Sodhi Rai whose descendants ruled over the Sanaudh region now known as east and west Punjab and Haryana and some parts of Himachal Pradesh in northern India.