Malhotra

Malhotra (Punjabi: ਮਲਹੋਤਰਾ, Hindi: मलहोत्रा) is a Suryavanshi Khatri/Kshatriya family surname originating from the Punjab region of the Indian Subcontinent, today straddling India and Pakistan.

The Malhotras belong to the kshatriya varna (the princely military order in Vedic society).

Along with the Khanna and Kapoor clans, the Mehra/Malhotra clan forms the Dhai Gar (which means 2½ families), in the Kshatriya Khatri clan hierarchy. There are mainly six sub-castes of malhotra danga wale (people with the sword), the most fighter class of them all being kassi wale.

Malhotra and Mehrotra

Mehrotra is a modified form of Malhotra, which is itself an extended form of Mehra,^[1] meaning of the sun (Mihr or Mitra).

The Malhotras are from the Punjab and the Mehrotras are from the state of Uttar Pradesh. The Mehrotra clan along with the Tandon, Kapur/Kapoor and Sethi clans form the small Khatri community of Uttar Pradesh. The Tandon, Kapur and Sethi clans are also found among Punjabi Khatris.

Prominent Malhotras

Armed forces

• General Om Prakash Malhotra PVSM, 13th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, former Governor of Punjab, Administrator of Chandigarh
• General J. C. Malhotra, (retd) PVSM, AVSM, VSM
• Lt. General Yash Malhotra AVSM
• Lt. General S P Malhotra PVSM
• Lt. General S.L. Malhotra, PVSM, AVSM, Director General National Cadet Corps
• Major General Surindur Kumar Malhotra, PVSM, MGASC, Western Command
• Major General Raj Krishan Malhotra AVSM
• Major General I C Malhotra
• Major General Deepak Malhotra, Commandant of the Army Selection Centre South
• Surg Vice Admiral S Malhotra, Director General Medical Service (Navy)
• Rear Admiral H C Malhotra
• Vice Admiral Vijay Malhotra
• Rear Admiral M.S. Malhotra
• Air Vice Marshal Surjit Singh Malhotra VSM AVSM

Politics and Government

• Professor Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Politician; Deputy head of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Chairman Parliament Public Accounts Committee
• Justice H.R.Malhotra; Justice Delhi High Court
• R. N. Malhotra; Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Executive Director International Monetary Fund
• S.G.Malhotra ; Secretary-General Lok Sabha (Parliament)
• Subhash Malhotra; Director General of Police, President of the Indian Police Service Officers’ Association (IPSOA)
• Jagmohan Malhotra, former Cabinet Minister for Tourism and Culture, Governor Of Kashmir, Lt. Governor of Delhi
• Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra
• Justice Ashok Kumar Malhotra, Supreme Court of India
• Ravindra Nath Malhotra, Chairman of the Indian Railway Board
• Ms Nisha Malhotra, Chief Commissioner Delhi Zone
• VK Malhotra, Commissioner of Police, Kanpur
• S C Malhotra Bombay Police Commissioner
• Ajai Malhotra, Ambassador of India to Russia
• Jayant Malhotra MP, Rajya Sabha
• M.P.S. Malhotra (Deputy Commissioner of income tax)
• Seema Malhotra, British Labour Party Member of Parliament

Academia

• Professor Vivek Malhotra ; Professor of Biology, University of California
• Professor Yudhishtar (Malhotra) ; former Head of the English Department University of Delhi, Governor Hindu College
• Dr Yogesh Malhotra; Founding Chairman of the BRINT Institute
• Paven Malhotra, Senior Editor of the Harvard International Review
• Prof RC Malhotra former Director IIT, Indian Institutes of Technology
• Goldy Malhotra, Principal Modern School Vasant Vihar
• Dr (Col) OM Prakash Malhotra. Cardiologist Indian Army. Physician to Prime mInister Jawahar Lal Nehru.
• Dr.S.K.Malhotra,Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care,PGI,Chandigarh
• Prof Yog Raj Malhotra. Former Chancellor (University of Jammu).
• Prof. Harish Chandra Mehrotra Mathematician, his biography.Indian Government honoured him by naming an institute dedicated to Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, after him, in Allahabad, India. The institute is known as Harish-Chandra Research Institute, abbreviated HRI
• Dr SK Malhotra, Professor of Dermatology at Govt Medical College, Amritsar
• Dr Pavan Malhotra, Professor & Head, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, A S C O M S & H, Sidhra, Jammu
• Dr. Aneeta Singh Malhotra, Asst. Professor, Department of Pathology, A S C O M S & H, Sidhra, Jammu
• R.L.Malhotra,Rtd Head of Pushto Department AIR,Pushto Short Stories Writer,Broadcaster, Translator,Journalist,Compiled World's 1st Hindi-Pushto Dictionary, translated hundreds of short stories from & to Pushto.

Aviation

• S K Malhotra; Director of Personnel, Indian Airlines Corporation
• V B Malhotra; Dy Director of Engineering, Indian Airlines Corporation
• Vijay Malhotra; SE at Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, D.C.

Business

• Anil Mehra, Managing Director, B.E.C. Group of Industires
• Arjun Malhotra, CEO Techspan and founder HCL
• Sudhir Malhotra, President Safeway TPA
• Satish Chandra Malhotra: Industrialist; Chairman Empire Industries
• Harbans Lal Malhotra; Industrialist
• http://yellowpages.sulekha.com/delhi/scientific-steel-corporation-daryaganj-delhi_contact-address.htm Sanjay Malhotra ; Founder and President of Scientific and Steel Corporation Delhi
• Arjun Malhotra. CEO, Headstrong
• Vikram Malhotra, head of McKinsey & Co.'s New York office
• Dina Nath Malhotra; Publisher, President Emeritus - Federation of Indian Publishers
• Romi Malhotra; Managing Director DELL India
• T K Malhotra Chairman, Automobile Association
• Vikram Malhotra, Managing Director Credit Suisse Bank
• Manish Malhotra, Designer
• Robin Malhotra, Avaya Inc.
• Sumit Malhotra; President & CEO Interactive World
• Sudhir Malhotra; President Cornerstone Brokers
• Kajal Malhotra; Managing Director; Kreative Marketing
• Nikunj Malhotra; Technical Head; United Customz
• Ratnesh Malhotra, Durga Books Agency, Kanpur. Malhotra & sons Publications

Other

• Manish Malhotra; Fashion Designer
• Mrs S Malhotra - former Maharani of Indore
• Dr. Sanjeev Kr. Malhotra - Founder President, Cornerstone Hospitalities and Healthcare Services, India
• Mr. Ajai Mehrotra - Head - Human Resources, Infopro Worldwide Inc
• Manny Malhotra; professional ice hockey player, currently a centre for the Vancouver Canucks
• Air Commodore Ravish Malhotra, Cosmonaut
• Ashok Malhotra; Chairman MBD Books
• Maddy Malhotra; International Motivational Speaker and Self-Help Author, UK
• Vinay Malhotra S/o Tilak Raj Malhotra S/o Lala RamRakhamal (Freedom Fighter), Director Malhotra College, Bhopal
• Mukesh Malhotra - Rotary District 1140 District Governor 2011-12. Hounslow, London, UK
• Vinod Mehra - was an Indian actor in Bollywood films
• Riina Malhotra, journalist and TV-host at Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)

References

1. ^ Census of India, 1901, India Census Commissioner, Printed at the Rajputana Mission Press, 1902,p. 342

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