Bhikhiwind

Bhikhiwind was called Patton Nagar for a short while in 1965. More than 97 tanks of the Pakistani army were displayed here at the end of the September India-Pakistan conflict. The Pakistan Army tanks were captured at the Battle of Asal Uttar by India's 4 Mountain Division and it became a memorial to the Pakistani tanks being bogged down in the marshes during the 1965 War. The tanks were displayed for some time after which they were shipped to various cantonments and army establishments in India for display as war trophies.

Ashwani kumar Arora’s father, Raghunath, set up the firm’s first rice mill in 1978 in Punjab’s Bhikhiwind, close to India’s border with Pakistan. Since then, the BSE-listed company has established a footprint in 65 countries through its brands Daawat, Royal,Sona and Hadeel.

Sarabjit Singh (also spelled Sarabjeet Singh; 1963 or 1964 – 2 May 2013[2]) (alleged to be Manjit Singh by Pakistan[1][3][4]) was an Indian national convicted of terrorism and spying by a Pakistani court.[5][6] He was tried and convicted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan for a series of bomb attacks in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 bystanders in 1990.[7] Sarabjit claimed he was a farmer who strayed into Pakistan from his village located on the border, three months after the bombings.[8][9][10][11][12][13] After a brief trial in the Lahore High Court (later directed to the Supreme Court), he was condemned and sentenced to death in 1991, but the sentence was repeatedly postponed by the Government of Pakistan.[14] While in prison at Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore in April 2013, he was attacked by fellow inmates and died six days later at the Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. Singh was born in Bhikhiwind, located along the Indo-Pakistani border in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab, India.[15] He was fond of wrestling and taking care of rare pigeons.[16] He worked as a farmer on other's fields.[16] He was married to Sukhpreet Kaur and had two daughters Swapandeep and Poonam Kaur. His sister, Dalbir Kaur, was working towards his release since 1991 till his death in 2013.[17][18]

Shaheed Baba Deep Singh (1682-1757) great Sikh Warrior, Saint, and a martyr of the Sikh faith was born in 1682 to Bhai Bhagta and Mata Jioni in Pahuwind(Bhikhiwind). He lived in the village of Pahuwind which is 1km away from Bhikhiwind main chowk in Tarn Taran district. Nowadays, Pahuwind is almost merged into Bhikhiwind.

Baba Deep Singh founded the Principality of Misl Shaheedan in Bathinda District of Punjab, holy town of Talwandi Sabo (Malva Region), where he spent the majority of his life. In Talwandi Sabo he would meditate all day in his Underground Room (Bhora), as well as helping the people, translating the Holy Guru Granth Sahib Ji into Arabic, Persian, other languages and sending them off to Arabic countries.

Bhikhiwind is located at 31.34°N 74.70°E / 31.34; 74.70.[3]

As of 2011 India census,[4] Bhikhiwind had a population of 20526. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Bhikhiwind has an average literacy rate of 74.71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with the male literacy rate of 80.06% and female literacy rate of 67.92%. 12.53% of the population is under 6 years of age.