Falound Kalan

Falaund Kalan is a village in Sangrur in Punjab, India.HistoryThe village name came from the foundries that were used to melt iron for the state of Malerkotla. A large mound near the Chupka village in the administrative land of Falaund Khurd offers evidence of that. The area was once called Banger, as its dialect was different from central Punjab.Ahmed Shah Abdali fought a historical war with Sikhs at nearby Rohira in which more than twenty-thousand men were killed and a large number were injured. This battle was significant in the history of Malerkotla Rayiast.During the Partition of India in 1947, those men who had crossed the boundary into Falaund Kalan were not harmed. The Nawab of Malerkotla, Sher Khan opposed the killing of the younger sons of the 10th master Sri Guru Gobind Singh at Sirhind. This is known as Ha Da Nahra The Sikhs felt that Sri Guru Gobind Singh had pardoned the Nawab. In lieu of this, Malerkotla was not displaced. Many people and animals entered the city for protection during Partition.In 2015, Mr. Bal Anand, IFS, from Falaund Kalan, instituted a prize consisting of Rs 11,000 and a citation for a renowned author in the memory of his grandfather Baba Paramatma Nand, an Ayurveda wizard who had written the life history of Baba Gajjan Shah.