Cheema, Virk and Chatha are gots concentrated historically in the Rechna Doab, around Gujranwala, Sialkot and Wazirabad, which is now Pakistani Punjab.
Their Indian Punjab populations are largely descended from families that came across in 1947, and their villages of origin are in the other country.
Kulwant Singh Virk, the short story writer, was from Phullarwan in Sheikhupura district. Sant Attar Singh of Mastuana was born at Cheema in Sangrur district, which is a village of the same name on this side.
In Pakistani Punjab the same gots are Muslim, and Cheema, Virk and Chatha are common Muslim surnames there.
The got is one of the few things that survived the religious division intact. A Cheema in Sangrur and a Cheema in Gujranwala share a clan name across a border and a religion, and neither is likely to know it.
Chatha villages around Gujranwala gave their name to the Chatha chiefs who held that country before the Sukerchakia rise, and Ranjit Singh Ji's grandfather fought them.
The movement of 1947 moved these gots wholesale. A village of Cheemas in Sangrur district today is likely descended from a village of Cheemas near Gujranwala, resettled together on allotted land.
That pattern, whole villages moved and rebuilt under the same name, is one reason the got map of Indian Punjab is not a map of ancient settlement in its western half.