This was the place from which the ancestors of Bhagat Singh, an Indian freedom fighter, had moved prior to his birth in 1907 and after whom the district is named.
In his famous autobiographical work – ‘Why I Am An Atheist’, Bhagat Singh, the legendary freedom fighter of India has wrongly referred to Niralamba Swami as the author of the book- ‘Common Sense.’ The fact is that only the Introduction to the book was written by Niralamba Swami.
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Among the notable freedom fighters to have visited Niralamba Swami was the legendary Bhagat Singh.
Manmohan Singh | Maharaja Ranjit Singh | Anurag Singh | Yuvraj Singh | Ranjit Singh | Jagjit Singh | Vijay Singh | Guru Gobind Singh | Bhagat Singh | Karan Singh | Khushwant Singh | Jai Singh I | Hari Singh | Talvin Singh | Simranjit Singh Mann | Parkash Singh Badal | Yograj Singh | Upasana Singh | Tiger Jeet Singh | Satendra Singh | Raj Singh | Mulayam Singh Yadav | Karamjit Singh | Harbhajan Singh | Ajit Singh | Sukhbir Singh Badal | Rawal Ratan Singh | Rajendra Singh | Pradeep Singh | Jaspreet Singh |
He is the author of a number of books including: 'The Kashmir Question', 'Badruddin Tyabji Ministers' Misconduct', 'Brezhnev's Plan for Asian Security', 'The Presidential System', 'The Trial of Bhagat Singh', 'Constitutional Questions in India' and 'The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour' (LeftWord 2000).
In the early years of his life, Chellappa was influenced by Bhagat Singh but later he adopted Mahatma Gandhi's creed of non-violence.
Lives and messages of freedom fighters including Mangal Pandey, Bhagat Singh and Tantia Tope were staged all over India travelling a distance of 24500 kilometers along the geographical, cultural and linguistic diversities of the great Indian sub continent.
The National College at Lahore started by him became the centre for revolutionary ideas and was the college where revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh studied.
The college was rechristened as 'Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies' in 1997, to pay homage to Indian revolutionary Sukhdev Thapar who along with Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru became part of independence folklore for their sacrifice.
On September 27, 2008 at Khatkar Kalan, eight km from Nawanshahr, the Punjab government announced that a district in the state would be named after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
The 12 members of the committee were Surjit Singh Barnala, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, Jiwan Singh Umranangal, Gurmeet Singh, Dr. Bhagat Singh, Balwant Singh, Gian Singh Rarewala, Amar Singh Ambalavi, Prem Singh Lalpura, Jaswinder Singh Brar, Bhag Singh, and Major General Gurbakhsh Singh of Badhani.
Banga, India in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar District, Punjab State