Bahadurgarh is a city, and a municipal council with 31 wards, in Jhajjar district in the state of Haryana, India. Known as the "Gateway of Haryana", it is famous for Pakoras and is home to the manufacturing units of several big companies including: Hindustan National Glass, Parle Products , Advanced Enterprises and SPL. Bahadurgarh was founded by Mughal Emperor Alamgir II (The Sultan of Delhi 1754-1759). He gave the town in jagir to Bahadur Khan and Tej Khan, Baloch rulers of Farrukhnagar in 1754, who changed its name from Sharafabad. They also constructed a fort named Bahadurgarh Fort. Bahadurgarh came into the hands of Sindhia in 1793. After his defeat in 1803 at the hands of the British, Lord Lake handed the town to the brother of the Nawab of Jhajjar. It was confiscated after the First War of Independence (1857) and became a division of the Rohtak district in 1860. In 1997 the town got attached with Jhajjar after it bifurcated from Rohtak and became a new district. The town and...
