Fatehgarh Sahib

Fatehgarh Sahib is a city and the headquarters of Fatehgarh Sahib district, one of the twenty districts in the north west Indian state of Punjab.HistoryThe city is an historically important settlement north of the city of Patiala and is of special significance to followers of the Sikh faith. The Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib, 5km north of Sirhind, marks the burial site of the two younger sons of the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Sri Guru Gobind Singh. Here, Sahibzada Fateh Singh and Sahibzada Zorawar Singh were entombed while still alive on 26 December 1704 on the orders of the Governor of Sirhind, Wazir Khan.The word "Fatehgarh", means "Town of Victory", and is so called because in 1710, Sikhs under the leadership of Banda Bahadur overran the area and razed the fort built during Balban's rule to the ground.Gurdwara Jyoti Sarup lies about from Fatehgarh Sahib on the Sirhind-Chandigarh road. At this place, the mortal remains of Mata Gujri, the mother of Guru Gobind Singh and his two younger sons, Sahibzada Fateh Singh and Sahibzada Zorawar Singh were cremated. Wazir Khan, the then Faujdar or Governor of Sirhind, refused to allow the cremation of the bodies unless the land for the cremation was purchased by laying gold coins on it. Todar Mal, who was an ardent devotee of Guru Gobind Singh, purchased this piece of land by offering the gold coins as demanded and thereby etched his name in the annals of Sikh history and earned the title "Dewan".