Majitha

The original name of the town, Madho-Jetha, became contracted into Majitha over time.{{Cite news |last=Walia |first=Varinder |date=8 September 2005 |title=Special on the death anniversary of Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, which falls on September 9 - Majithia’s virasat knows no sarhad |work=The Tribune India |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050908/aplus.htm |quote=Majitha is situated 16 kilometre to the north east of Amritsar. The town is connected with Amritsar by train and road. The town was founded by one Madho, a Jat of the Gill clan. He was 'jetha' (the eldest son) of his father and hence the place was 'Madho-Jetha'. The 'Madho-Jetha' subsequently got contracted into Majitha. Madho was thus the ancestor of Majithia Sardars, some of whom held high positions during the Sikh rule. It is believed that the forefathers of legendary Maharaja Ranjit Singh were closely associated with the town.}}{{Cite web |last=Majithia |first=Satyajit Singh |last2=Sandhu |first2=Manleen |last3=Singh |first3=Sukhpal |date=28 May 2013 |title=Oral history with Satyajit Singh Majithia |url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/1947-partition/catalog/cy062hz9278 |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=The 1947 Partition Archive, Survivors and their Memories - Spotlight at Stanford - Stanford Libraries - Stanford University |language=en |quote=Mado Jetha was the name that established Majitha, a place thirty odd miles from Amritsar.}}

The town was founded by a man named Madho, a Jat of the Gill clan. Since he was the eldest son of his father, the town was named 'Madho-Jetha' (jetha means 'elder' or 'firstborn' in Punjabi).{{Cite web |title=ਜੇਠਾ - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪੀਡੀਆ |url=https://punjabipedia.org/topic.aspx?txt=%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A0%E0%A8%BE |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=punjabipedia.org |language=Punjabi}}{{Cite web |title=ਜੇਠਾ - Meaning in English |url=https://www.shabdkosh.com/dictionary/punjabi-english/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A0%E0%A8%BE/%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A0%E0%A8%BE-meaning-in-english |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=www.shabdkosh.com}} Madho is believed to be an ancestor of the Majithia family.

The table below shows the population of different religious groups in Majitha city and their gender ratio, as of 2011 census.

==Politics==

The city is part of the Majitha Assembly Constituency.

• Lehna Singh Majithia (d. 1854){{Cite web |last= |first= |date= 19 December 2000|title=Desa Singh Majithia |url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/biographical/sikh-political-figures/desa-singh-majithia/ |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=The Sikh Encyclopedia |language=en-US |quote=Desa Singh died in 1832, and was succeeded in all his estates and honours by his eldest son, Lahina Singh Majithia.}}{{Cite web |date= 19 December 2000|title=Lahina Singh Majithia |url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/biographical/sikh-political-figures/lahina-singh-majithia/ |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=The Sikh Encyclopedia |language=en-US}}
• Ranjodh Singh Majithia (d. 1872){{Cite web |last= |first= |date= 19 December 2000|title=Ranjodh Singh Majithia |url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/biographical/sikh-political-figures/ranjodh-singh-majithia/ |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=The Sikh Encyclopedia |language=en-US}}
• Dyal Singh Majithia (1848–1898){{Cite web |date= 19 December 2000|title=Dyal Singh Majithia |url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/biographical/sikh-political-figures/dyal-singh-majithia/ |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=The Sikh Encyclopedia |language=en-US}}
• Surat Singh (1810–1881),{{Cite web |first= |date= 19 December 2000|title=Surat Singh Majithia, Raja |url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/biographical/sikh-political-figures/surat-singh-majithia-raja/ |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=The Sikh Encyclopedia |language=en-US}} zamindar and military officer in the Khalsa Army{{cite web |title=Amrita Sher-Gil Portrait Comes to Market After 80 Years |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/amrita-sher-gil-portrait-comes-to-market-after-80-years |access-date=24 April 2021 |website=Sotheby's |date=26 November 2018 |archive-date=24 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424191837/https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/amrita-sher-gil-portrait-comes-to-market-after-80-years |url-status=live }} In 1877, he was awarded the title of Raja and made a Companion of the Star of India.
• Sundar Singh Majithia (1872–1941),{{Cite web |last= |date= 19 December 2000|title=Sundar Singh Majithia, Sardar Bahadur Sir |url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/biographical/sikh-political-figures/sundar-singh-majithia-sardar-bahadur-sir/ |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=The Sikh Encyclopedia |language=en-US}} landowner and politician. He was a member of Khalsa Nationalist Party and Revenue Member at the first and second legislative councils of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The first president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
• Umrao Singh Sher-Gil (1870–1954){{Cite web |title=Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation {{!}} Sher-Gil Sundaram Family |url=https://ssaf.in/sher-gil-sundaram-family/ |access-date=2024-01-28 |language=en-US}} 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),{{Cite book |last=Anand |first=Mulk Raj |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fd7qAAAAMAAJ&q=amrita+sher-gil+majithia+family |title=Amrita Sher-Gil |publisher=National Gallery of Modern Art |year=1989 |pages=2, 7 |quote=Page 2: Amrita Sher-Gil, born of Marie Antoinette, a cultured Hungarian mother, and Sardar Umrao Singh Gil, an aristocrat from the Majithia family of Amritsar..." Page 7: "Amrita Sher-Gil was brought to India by her parents at the age of eight and lived on the slopes of Summer Hill at Simla, and in Saraya a village in the Gorakhpur district of U.P., which was the Majithia family estate.}}{{Cite book |last=Anand |first=Mulk Raj |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-zY2gTcG6yIC&dq=amrita+sher-gil+majithia+family&pg=PA113 |title=Splendours of Himachal Heritage |publisher=Abhinav Publications |year=1997 |isbn=978-81-7017-351-9 |editor-last=Anand |editor-first=Mulk Raj |page=113 |language=en |chapter=Conversation with Amrita Sher-Gil |quote=Mulk Raj Anand (speaking to Amrita Sher-Gil): 'You from Majithia family say so, you are more progressive than me!' Amrita replied: 'I hope so.'}}{{Cite book |last=Nigam |first=Raj Kumar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6geKAAAAMAAJ&q=amrita+sher-gil+majithia+family |title=Memoirs of Old Mandarins of India: The Administrative Change as the ICS Administrators Saw in India |publisher=Documentation Centre for Corporate & Business Policy Research |year=1985 |quote=From Dehra Dun, I came to Gorakhpur. After two more years at Gorakhpur, I was posted to Rae Bareli, perhaps, the most feudal district in the U.P. with Rajas, Ranas, and Sardars (Majithia family whom I had known from before through Amrita Sher-Gil, the painter who lived in Sardarnagar in Gorakhpur).}} Hungarian-Indian painter. Daughter of Umrao Singh
• Wing Commander Surjit Singh Majithia (1912–1995),{{Cite web |date= 19 December 2000|title=Surjit Singh Majitha |url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/biographical/sikh-political-figures/surjit-singh-majlthia/ |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=The Sikh Encyclopedia |language=en-US}} Indian politician, diplomat, and air force officer. Son of Sundar Singh Majithia
• 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

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