Malik or Malak is a gotra of

Jat The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and su ...

s found in Pakistan and India. The Malik Jats were originally called Ghatwal (or Gathwala); they proudly started calling themselves ''malik'' ("lord"). They were

zamindar A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as a ...

s (landowners) during the Mughal era.

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{{Gotras of Jats Jat clans of Haryana