Sultanpur is 46km southwest of Delhi and getting there is tougher than spotting a red-crested pochard! There are irregular, bone-shaking buses ( 40, one hour). It s better to hire a taxi (return 1400).
Faridkot was once capital of a Sikh state of the same name and has a 700-year-old fortress. wall outlet voltage The 13th-century poet and Sufi Baba Sheikh Farid lived here, and he is honoured by a festival (see p 200 ). His belief in equality influenced Guru Nanak (see the boxed text, p 1110 ) and some of his poems are in the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib.
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