SETHI

Sethi,(ਸੇਠੀ) is a surname that is found among the Punjabi Khatris of India .Sethis are of Khukhrain sub-caste among the Khatris, a regional sub caste of Khatris of ten clans which also includes the clans of Anand, Bhasin Chadha, Kohli, Ghai, Sahni, Sethi, (Sawhney) and Suri. Of Punjab. In keeping with Khatri-like traditions, Bhera was an important trading outpost on the road to Kabul, and a 'taksal' (mint) during the reign of Ranjit Singh. Historian Kamal Shankar Srivastava writes that all Khukrains including Sethis were originally especially in the towns of Bhera in the Jech doab (Jhelum - Chenab interfluve) Pind Dadan Khan, Peshawar and Nowshera region of Sargodha district of of Punjab. It is derived from Sanskrit šreṣṭhī which denotes the head of a mercantile or other guild.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

Sethis are Indo-Aryan peoples and have originally followed Hinduism, however a significant number adapted Sikhism during the 18th and 19th centuries. This, and also because many Hindu Sethi families, as well as other Khatri and Khatri-like clans, raised at least one Sikh son after the formation of the Khalsa in 1699, resulted in Kukhran family names, as well as other Khatri-like clan names, being present in both Hindu and Sikh communities worldwide.

Some of Sethi's or Sethi family are also living in Peshawar, a capital city of NWFP(North West Frontier) province of Pakistan. There is a famous area (colony) called "Mohalah Sethiyhan", famous for sethi families living there.

Although this gotra of Khatri clan has similar spell with Sethi clan of Jatt sikhs. Both are entirely different gotras although they have similar spell, jatt community being called as ਸੇਥੀ whereas khatri sikh clan being called as ਸੇਠੀ.

Religion

Indian Sethis are mostly Hindu and Sikhs whereas in Pakistan they are mostly Muslims.

Hindu 55%, Sikh 40%, Muslim 5%

Notable People

•Akshay Sethi (born 1980), Indian television actor

•Aman Sethi, Indian journalist and writer

•Ali Sethi, Pakistani singer and author

•Arjun Sethi (entrepreneur), Indian American entrepreneur, investor and executive

•Arjun Singh Sethi, Indian American civil rights writer and lawyer

•Geet Sethi (born April 17, 1961) is an Indian billiards player who dominated the sport of billiards throughout much of the 1990s.

•Gorav Sethi is a well known Irish-Indian Investment Banker famous for creating the "Jockie" cult of 2003.

•Jagdish Sethi is an Indian actor. He has starred in more than 50 films.

•Kiran Sethi, Indian police officer

•Mira Sethi Pakistani Actress.

•Najam Sethi Senior Pakistani Journalist and former Chief Minister of Punjab Province in Pakistan during a caretaker Government, Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board in 2022

•Nargis Sethi Senior Pakistani civil servant

•Prem Gopal "Biloo" Sethi, Indian golfer

•Parmeet Sethi, Indian actor

•Pramod Karan Sethi, Indian orthopaedic surgeon and co-inventor of the Jaipur leg

•Rajeev Sethi, Indian art curator, scenographer and designer

•Rakesh Sethi, Indian banker

•Ram Sethi, Indian actor-director-writer

•Ramesh Sethi, Kenyan cricketer

•Ramit Sethi, American entrepreneur and self proclaimed personal finance adviser

•Ravi Sethi, Indian computer scientist

•Ricky J. Sethi, Indian-American computational scientist

•Pramod Karan Sethi (23 November 1927 – 5 January 2008) was the coinventor of the Jaipur foot

•Parender Sethi is a notable Indian Palmist, Astrologer and Scholar who has contributed significantly to the science of Palmistry

•Rajendra Sethi is an Indian Bollywood actor who appears in Bollywood films.

•Ravi Sethi (born 1947) is an Indian computer scientist retired from Bell Labs and now president of Avaya Labs Research. He is best known as one of three authors of the classic computer science textbook "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", also known as the Dragon Book.

•Simran Sethi (born October 12, 1970, in Munich, Germany) is an American journalist, television producer and activist.

•Steven Sethi is a british born businessman best known for consumer electronics brand 'asidt'

•Suresh P. Sethi, American mathematician and economist known for the Sethi model

•{TOUQEER SETHI} Lived in mohalla sethiyan peshawar

•Vikas Sethi, Indian actor