Hariki

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Location of Harike (Patti) in Amritsar district

Hariki (Harike:हरिके) is a large village in Patti tahsil of Tarn Taran district in Punjab, India.

Variants of name

Location

The present confluence of the Bias and Satlej dates only from about A.D. 1790, when the Satlej finally deserted its old course by Dharmkot, and joined the Bias at Hariki-pattan.[1]

Origin

Founded after Hari , a descendant of Sidhu.

Jat Gotras Namesake

Jat Gotras

Population

At the time of Census-2011, the population of Hariki village stood at 8662, with 1620 households.

History

Lepel H. Griffin[3] writes that Sidhu, who was, ancestor and originator of Sidhu-Jat clan, had four sons, Dhar, sometimes called Debi, Bur, Sur and Rupach. From the Dhar/Debi has descended the families of Kythal, Jhumba, Amowli and Sadhowal.

from the second the Phulkian Chiefs.

Sur, the third, has no family of any note among his descendants, who, however, are numerous in Battinda and Firozpur ;

while those of Rupach, the youngest, reside at Pir-ki-kot and Ratrya in the Firozpur district.

Bir, the son of Bur, had two sons, the eldest of whom, Sidtilkara, did not marry, but became an ascetic.

Sitrah, the younger, had two sons, Jertha and Lakumba, from the second of whom the family of Attari, in the Amritsar district, has sprung.

His son Hari, gave his name to Hariki on the Satlej, near the spot where the battle of Sobraon was fought, and also founded the villages of Bhatta and Ghima.

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