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Majithia Sirdars
This term refers to a set of three related families of Sikh sirdars (chiefs) that came from the area of Majitha - a town 10 miles north of the Punjab city of Amritsar and rose to prominance in the early 1800s. The Majithia clans threw in with the rising star of the Sikh misls - Ranjit Singh - during the latter 1700s.
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