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Kotla Nihang Khan

Indus Valley settlement and 17th‑century fort, Punjab, India

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Kotla Nihang Khan is a suburb town of Ropar city in Punjab, India. It is famed as the erstwhile principality of the seventeenth-century Pathan zamindar ruler, Nihang Khan, who was an associate of the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh.

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Initial settlement phase

c. 2200 BCE

Nihang Khan's rule and fort

17th century

Guru Gobind Singh visit

1688

Indus Valley occupation

3300–1300 BCE

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Coordinates

30.95° N, 76.54° E