Khatkar Kalan in Nawanshahr district is Shaheed Bhagat Singh Ji's ancestral village. The district, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, is named for him.
A memorial and museum stand in the village.
The house at Khatkar Kalan is a museum. It holds the family's possessions, Bhagat Singh's jail notebook in facsimile, and the ashes brought from Hussainiwala.
The district was renamed Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar in 2008. The family village of a man hanged at twenty-three lies in an administrative unit of about six lakh people that now bears his name.
His uncle Ajit Singh was deported to Mandalay in 1907, released later the same year, and left India for Iran in 1909. He was abroad for thirty-eight years from that flight, returned in March 1947, and died at Dalhousie on 15 August 1947.
The family were Sandhu Jats with land at Khatkar Kalan and a house at Banga in Lyallpur district, where Bhagat Singh was born in 1907. The Lyallpur property went in 1947 and the Khatkar Kalan house is what survives.
His grandfather Arjan Singh was an Arya Samaji; his father Kishan Singh and both uncles were in the movement; the household was under surveillance for most of his childhood. He is usually presented as an individual and he came out of a family that had been in it for a generation before he was born.
The memorial holds a copy of his jail notebook, the writings, and the ashes brought from Hussainiwala. It receives large numbers of visitors on 23 March and 28 September and comparatively few on any other day.