Fatehabad

Fatehabad lies in the Majha country of Punjab, near the Sikh centres of Goindwal and Khadur Sahib. Its old fort is said to date back at least to the time of Mahmud of Ghazni, when a Ghaznavid garrison was stationed there. Under the Mughals an imperial sarai offered shelter to armies and caravans passing through the town.

In the eighteenth century Fatehabad became a seat of the Ahluwalia Misl. Its leader Jassa Singh Ahluwalia defeated the Mughal governor Adina Beg and took the town during the 1750s. The misl later shifted its capital to Kapurthala, where Jassa Singh founded a state in 1772. Fatehabad is also associated with Guru Nanak, who is remembered here for a hymn in praise of nature.