Khatkar Kalan

Khatkar Kalan
town
Khatkar Kalan

Location in Punjab, India

Coordinates: 31°07′00″N 76°08′00″E / 31.1167°N 76.1333°E / 31.1167; 76.1333Coordinates: 31°07′00″N 76°08′00″E / 31.1167°N 76.1333°E / 31.1167; 76.1333
Country  India
State Punjab
District Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar
Languages
 • Official Punjabi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 144512[1]
Vehicle registration PB-32

Khatkar Kalan is a village just outside Banga town in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Punjab. This was the place from which the ancestors of Bhagat Singh, an Indian freedom fighter, had moved prior to his birth in 1907 and after whom the district is named.[2][3]

Neighboring villages that share a boundary with Katkar Kalan are Thandian, Dosanjh Khurd, Manguwal, Karnana, Kahma, Bhootan, Bhukhari and the Town of Banga .

Bhagat Singh Ancestral Home Memorial and Museum at Khatkar Kalan

The ancestral home at Khatkar Kalan. Though Singh never lived in the house, it is preserved as a museum.
The National Martyrs Memorial, built at Hussainiwala in memory of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru

The Bhagat Singh Ancestral Home Memorial at Khatkar Kalan and museum is situated in the Khatkar Kalan village and opened on his 50th death anniversary. It contains memorabilia, including his half-burnt ashes, the blood-soaked sand and blood-stained newspaper in which the ashes were wrapped. A page of the first Lahore Conspiracy Case's judgement through which Kartar Singh Sarabha was sentenced to death and on which Singh put some notes is also exhibited in the museum. A copy of the Bhagavad Gita with Singh's signature, which was given to him in Lahore Jail, and other personal belongings, are also displayed there. The Bhagat Singh Memorial was built in 2009 in Khatkar Kalan at a cost of ₹167.7 million (US$2.5 million).

Bhagat Singh, a Sandhu Jat Sikh,[4] was born in 1907 to Kishan Singh and Vidyavati at Chak No. 105 GB, Banga, Pakistan village, Jaranwala Tehsil in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab Province of British India. His birth coincided with the release of his father and two uncles, Ajit Singh and Swaran Singh, from jail.[5] His family members were Sikhs; some had been active in Indian Independence movements, others had served in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army. His ancestral village was Khatkar Kalan, near the town of Banga, India in Nawanshahr district (now renamed Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar) of the Punjab and his family had moved to the canal colonies of Banga, Pakistan in the Lyallpur district at the time of his birth.[6]

The Bhagat Singh Birth Place Memorial in Pakistan is based in Banga village in Faisalabad District (previously called Lyallpur) in the Punjab province of Pakistan where Bhagat Singh was born in 1907.[7] Government of Pakistan has declared it a national heritage site, Government of Punjab, India has offered help for the purchase and setting up of a world class memorial and the Government of Pakistan has already spent 5 crore rupees to preserve the site.[8][9][10]

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