India&nbsp– A rare Sikh seal in Gurmukhi and Farsi of the Maharajah of Farodikot dated in Gurmukhi&nbspsamvat VS&nbsp(ie 19th century). Faridkot is a Malwa District. It is one of the biggest cotton markets in South-East Asia. The name 'Faridkot' is derived from Baba Farid, the famous religious lover of God whose bani appears in the Guru Granth Sahib. Faridkot was feudlist province under British rule, but now it is a district in Punjab in independent India. The ancestor of the Faridkot principality, Bhallan was an ardent follower of Sri Guru Har Gobind Ji. He helped the Guru in the Battle of Mehraj. He died issueless in 1643. Kapura, a nephew of Bhallan, succeeded him. Kapura founded the town of Kotkapura in 1661 and was the Chaudhry of eighty-four villages. Although a Sikh he, not wanting to earn the enmity of the Mughals, did not help Guru Gobind Singh Ji in his fight with the Mughals. The state was captured in 1803 by Ranjit Singh, but was one of the Cis-Sutlej states that came under British influence after the 1809 Treaty of Amritsar. During the Sikh wars in 1845, Raja Pahar Singh aided the British, and was rewarded with an increase of territory. The state had an area of 642 square miles, and a population of 124,912 in 1901. It was bounded on the west and northeast by the British district of Ferozepore, and on the south by the state of Nabha. The last Ruler of Faridkot was Lt. HH Farzand-i-sadaat Nishan Hazrat-i-kaisar-i-hind Raja Sir Harindar Singh Brar Bans Bahadur.