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History

The family is divided into three principle branches, the Dayal Singh branch, Surat Singh branch, and Mahtab Singh branch. 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. An early ancestor of the family was Madho, a Jat of the Gill clan, which the Sher-Gill clan is a derivative of. He founded the village of Madho-Jetha, later known as Majitha. 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).

Notable Members

Dayal Singh branch

* Lehna Singh (d. 1854) * Ranjodh Singh (d. 1872) * Dyal Singh (1848–1898)

Surat Singh branch

* Surat Singh (1810–1881), zamindar and military officer in the Khalsa Army In 1877, he was awarded the title of

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and made a Companion of the Star of India. *

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(1872–1941), landowner and politician. He was a member of Khalsa Nationalist Party and Revenue Member at the first and second legislative councils of the

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* Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870–1954) aristocrat and a scholar in Sanskrit and Persian and Father of Amrita Sher-Gil * Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941, through her father, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil), Hungarian-Indian painter. Daughter of Umrao Singh * Wing Commander Surjit Singh Majithia (1912–1995), Indian politician, diplomat, and air force officer. Son of

* Satyajit Singh Majithia, educationist, industrialist, philanthropist, and Chancellor of Khalsa University. Son of Sardar Surjit Singh Majithia, former Deputy Defence Minister * Harsimrat Kaur Badal, a former Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing Industries. Daughter of Satyajit Singh Majithia * Bikram Singh Majithia, a former cabinet minister in the Punjab Government. Son of Satyajit Singh Majithia

Mahtab Singh branch

*Mahtab Singh (1811–1865)

Pedigrees

File:Majitha branch 1.jpg, Pedigree for Dayal Singh branch of Majithias File:Majithia Sardars family pedigree.jpg, Pedigree for Surat Singh branch of Majithias

References

{{Sikh Empire, state=collapsed Indian families People from Amritsar Majithia family Jat clans Punjabi families