Badrukhan is a big village about 5 km from

Sangrur Sangrur is a city in the Indian state of Punjab, India. It is the headquarters of Sangrur District. Geography Sangrur is located at . It has an average elevation of 237 metres (778 feet). Climate Health services City has PGIM ...

, the district headquarters, on Sangrur-

Barnala Barnala is a city in the Indian state of Punjab. Barnala city serves as the headquarters of the Barnala district which was formed in 2006. Prior to the formation of Barnala district, the city was located in Sangrur district. It is a centrally ...

road in

Punjab, India Punjab () is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab, Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the States and union territories of India, Indian states ...

History

The residents of five small villages, Vada Agwarh, Vichla Agwarh, Dalamwal, Dhaliwas and Thagan wali Patti, under the leadership of Pandit Badru, approached Great

Jat The Jat people (, ), also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in l ...

ruler Maharaja Gajpat Singh, the Maharaja of

Jind Jind is one of the largest and oldest cities in Jind district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is the administrative headquarter of Jind district. Rani Talab is the main destination for tourists while Pandu Pindara and Ramrai are the ma ...

, for security from dacoits. Maharaja Gajpat Singh amalgamated these villages and named it Badrukhan. In 1763, when Gajpat Singh captured the town of Jind, Badrukhan was made the capital of

State. He also built a fort here.

Present

The village has a Government Senior Secondary school, a 4-bedded subsidiary health center and a post office.

Notable people

* Lt. Gen.

Harbaksh Singh Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh, VrC (1 October 1913 – 14 November 1999) was an Indian senior military officer. As the commander of the Western Command, Singh commanded the Indian Army and played a key role during the Indo-Pakistani War o ...

, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Vir Chakra * Maj. Gen.

Gurbakhsh Singh Major General Gurbakhsh Singh, Distinguished Service Order, DSO, Order of the British Empire, OBE (1904 - 11 December 1979), also spelled as 'Gurbaksh Singh', was a general officer who served in the British Indian Army and later the Indian Army. H ...

, DSO, OBE * Pandit Durga Das Bhardwaj, Revenue Wajeer, Jind Riyasat * Amaranth Patwari (Kaka Patwari) *Tarsem Chand Bhardwaj, Manager, Punjab Agro *Dr Vikram Bhardwaj, Senior Doctor of ear nose throat and cancer surgery in Delhi. https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-vivo-rvo2&sxsrf=ALiCzsZ4erPnAqCQRnnapcFMFsaLp5Gz_g:1652027110883&q=Dr+Vikram+Bhardwaj+MS,+FHNS.+Senior+Consultant+ENT+HEAD+AND+NECK+ONCOSURGERY.+Endoscopic+Skull+Base+Surgery.&ludocid=11329815683770392823&gsas=1&client=ms-android-vivo-rvo2&lsig=AB86z5Xnlmfu3UrkM6vQ7mO02c4h&kgs=40133e6af43adf30&shndl=-1&source=sh/x/kp/local/2&entrypoint=sh/x/kp/local *Navpreet Singh Gosal

References

{{Sangrur district Villages in Sangrur district